SOC 340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Epidemiological Transition, Syphilis, Institutional Review Board
Document Summary
Social causes and patterns of health and disease. Social behavior of health care personnel and their patients. Relationship of health care delivery systems to other social systems. Social practices and conditions: lifestyles, living situations, work situations. Religious factors that affect the health of individuals, groups and communities, either positively or negatively. Most early works were written by physicians focused on the connections between social conditions and health. Early sociologists did not give much attention to matters of health and medicine. Federal funding after wwii gave sociomedical research a boost. Early collaborations with psychiatry: hollingshead and redlich 1958 new haven study, srole et al 1962 midtown manhattan study. Funding forces an early emphasis on applied research. Robert straus (1957) notes division between sociology in medicine and sociology of medicine: division found mostly in the us, initial tension between areas resolved by. Orientation of most research (whether in medicine or in sociology) toward practical application due to funding pressures.
