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4 sty 2019 · We argue that the most prominent sociological studies of hospitals focus on the clinical care that hospitals provide within hospital walls, where professional norms, socialization, and roles can be clearly elucidated.
The topical descriptions specifically include social aetiology of disease, cultural beliefs and social response to illness, sociology of medical care and hospitals, sociology of psychiatry, social transition and health care, traditional medicine (alternative medicine), sociology of bioethics, health policy and politics, social epidemiology ...
Hospitals as social institutions. The social role of hospitals extends far beyond their function in the treatment of patients and has been the subject of some of the best-known work in the sociology of healthcare.
A sociological understanding emphasizes the influence of people’s social backgrounds on the quality of their health and health care. A society’s culture and social structure also affect health and health care.
12 lut 2015 · PDF | On Feb 12, 2015, F. Collyer and others published The Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine: Institutional Progress and Theoretical Frameworks | Find, read and cite all the research you...
8 kwi 2019 · Rather than question how healthcare organisations can overcome public attachment to hospitals, this paper asks how local hospitals have meaning for their communities, and what roles communities play in their change and closure.
The authors describe three promising sociological frameworks for studying the changing hospital: (1) the study of professions, (2) social network analysis, and (3) community-based participatory research.
