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The Trend and Prospect of Medical Sociology: Its Concepts and the Interface with Medical History [PDF]
Medical sociology has a long history, and it has been institutionalized and developed since the 1940s. This paper is about the history, trends, and prospects of medical sociology from the perspective of concepts as well as its interface with medical ...
Jae-Hyung KIM, Hyang A LEE
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Social Aspects of Diabetic Foot: A Scoping Review
Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a severe complication of diabetes mellitus (DM). Patients with DFU have increased mortality and morbidity as well as decreased quality of life (QoL). The present scoping review aims to study the social issues of diabetic foot.
Davide Costa +9 more
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Social-humanitarian aspects of dialogue in the healthcare system
The article presents an overview of the IV Forum “Sociology of Health: Contemporary Healthcare in Dialogue with Everyone” organized by the Research Institute for Healthcare Organization and Medical Management of the Moscow Healthcare Department on ...
I. V. Bogdan, V. A. Kuzmenkov
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‘And breathe…’? The sociology of health and illness in COVID‐19 time
This note was written on 1 st April – April Fool ’ s Day - 2020 when we all vehemently wished that the global COVID-19 pandemic could be forgotten as a bad joke.
Catherine M Will
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Missing Pieces: Engaging Sociology of Disability in Medical Sociology
Medical sociologists and sociologists of disability study similar topics but, because of competing or conflicting theoretical paradigms, tend to arrive at different conclusions, engage with different audiences, and pursue different directions for social ...
Laura Mauldin, R. Brown
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Eliot Freidson's sociology of professions: an interpretation for Health and Nursing.
OBJECTIVES to analyze theoretical conceptions of Eliot Freidson's Sociology of Professions scoped on health and nursing professions. METHODS Eight nurses were interviewed, all involved in the development of the professional Council on the timeframe ...
Maria Lígia Bellaguarda +2 more
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Health Power Resources Theory: A Relational Approach to the Study of Health Inequalities
Link and Phelan’s pioneering 1995 theory of fundamental causes urged health scholars to consider the macro-level contexts that “put people at risk of risks.” Allied research on the political economy of health has since aptly demonstrated how institutions
Megan M. Reynolds
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Chronic pain is a common, costly, and consequential health problem. However, despite some important analytic contributions, sociological research on pain has not yet coalesced into a unified subfield.
Anna Zajacova +2 more
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The Sociology of Health in Terra Brasilis: a short genealogy of a field of knowledge [PDF]
The sociology of health is a recent fruit of an ancient tree of knowledge that goes back millennia. This study aimed to write an essay on the field of sociology of medicine and health in Brazil. The approach was qualitative, and the existing bibliography
Miguel Ângelo Montagner +1 more
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