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Medical sociology — Sociology … Wikipedia
Medical anthropology — is an interdisciplinary field which studies human health and disease, health care systems, and biocultural adaptation .[1] It views humans from multidimensional and ecological perspectives.[2] It is one of the most highly developed areas of… … Wikipedia
Medical sociologist — a practitioner of medical sociology. Medical sociologists work within different sociological traditions, including symbolic interactionist, social constructionist traditions, and use a variety of qualitative and quantitative sociological methods … Wikipedia
Medical model — is the term cited by psychiatrist Ronald D. Laing in his The Politics of the Family and Other Essays (1971), for the set of procedures in which all doctors are trained. This set includes complaint, history, physical examination, ancillary tests… … Wikipedia
Sociology — For the journal, see Sociology (journal). Sociology … Wikipedia
Medical model of disability — Disability Theory and models … Wikipedia
SOCIOLOGY — as a field of intellectual endeavor is much older than sociology as an academic discipline. Modern sociology can be traced to the Scottish moralists such as Adam Ferguson, David Hume, Adam Smith, and possibly to Thomas Hobbes. The word sociology… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Sociology of the body — is a branch of sociology studying the representations and social uses of the human body in modern societies. Early theoriesAccording to Thomas Laqueur, [Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender From the Greeks to Freud (Massachusetts , Harvard … Wikipedia
Medical ethics — is a system of moral principles that apply values and judgments to the practice of medicine. As a scholarly discipline, medical ethics encompasses its practical application in clinical settings as well as work on its history, philosophy, theology … Wikipedia
Medical education — is education related to the practice of being a medical practitioner, either the initial training to become a doctor (i.e., medical school and internship) or additional training thereafter (e.g., residency and fellowship). Medical education and… … Wikipedia
