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The Word as Scalpel

The Word as Scalpel

A History of Medical Sociology

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Medical Sociology is now an established subdiscipline in both medicine and sociology. This book traces the intellectual and institutional evolution of the field in relation to antecedents of the past 2000 years and developments in American sociology and medicine since the turn of the century. Drawing on his own experience as a participant and witness as well as from diverse fields, Samuel W. Bloom provides an engaging account of the ongoing search for knowledge about therelationship between illness, medicine, and society.
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OUP USA
85189
9780195149296
9780195149296

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Publication date
2002
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
368
Dimensions (mm)
156 x 235
Weight (g)
526
  • Part I: Medical Sociology before 1940; The origins: Medicine as social science, public health and social medicine; American sociology before 1920: From social advocacy to academic legitimacy; Between the world wars; The University of Chicago; Regional and intellectual influences; Part II: Medical sociology, 1940-1980; First steps toward social identity: Effects of the war and its aftermath on medical sociology; Postwar medical sociology: The founders at major universities, 1945-1960; The role of NIMH, 1946-1975; Becoming a profession: The role of the private foundations; From ad hoc committee to professional association: The section on medical sociology, 1955-1980; Part III: The current status of medical sociology; An era of change, 1980-2000;
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