Social Medicine and Medical Sociology in the Twentieth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-90-420-0356-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 1 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

Little attention has been paid to the history of the influence of the social sciences upon medical thinking and practice in the twentieth century. The essays in this volume explore the consequences of the interaction between medicine and social science by evaluating its significance for the moral and aterial role of medicine in modern societies. Some of the essays examine the ideas of both clinicians and social scientists who believed that highly technologized medicine could be made more humanistic by understanding the social relations of health and illness. Other authors interrogate the critical assault which social science has made upon medicine as a system of knowledge, organisation and power. The volume discusses, therefore, the relationship between social-scientific knowledge both in and of medicine in the twentieth century. Collectively the essays illustrate that the respective power of biology and culture in determining human behaviour and social transition continues to be an unresolved paradox.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Porter, Dorothy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Dorothy PORTER

1. Milton C. Winternitz and the Yale Institute of Human Relations: A Brief Chapter in the History of Social Medicine

Arthur J. VISELTEAR



2. Training Doctors for the National Health Service: Social Medicine, Medical Education and the GMC 1936-48

Nigel OSWALD

3. Making Medicine Social: The Case of the Two Dogs with Bent Legs

Ann OAKLEY



4. The Decline of Social Medicine in Britain in the 1960s

Dorothy PORTER

5. Social Medicine and Medical Sociology 1950-1970: The Testimony of a Partisan Participant

Margot JEFFERYS



6. The Dilemma of Social Pathology

Uta GERHARDT



7. The Social Space of Illness

David ARMSTRONG

8. Medicine, Diet and Moral Regulation: Foucault's Impact on Medical Sociology

Bryan S. TURNER

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dorothy Porter is a Wellcome Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Birkbeck College in the University of London. She has written In Sickness and In Health: the British Experience 1650-1850 (London, Fourth Estate books, 1988; New York, basil Blackwell, 1989) and Patient’s Progress. The Dialectics of Doctoring in 18th century England (Cambridge, Polity Press, 1989; Palo Alto. Stanford University Press, 1990) both with Roy Porter. She has recently edited a collection of essays on The History of health and the Modern State (Amsterdam and Atlanta, Rodopi, 1994) and is currently completing a book on Health Civilisation and the State. A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times (London, Routledge) and researching a study of The Pursuit of Social Pathology: Medicine and Social Science in Britain in the Twentieth Century.