MEDICAL CARE: SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS

Patients, Practitioners and Medical Care. Aspects of Medical Sociology

undertaken! Imbalances in presentation are exemplified by the treatment of Bacteroides (just a half-page) whilst Myco leprae fills more than two pages. On p.315 the multiple pressure method of smallpox vaccination is said to be a special procedure! On p.47 the brief paragraph on 'Droplets' frightens the reviewer-it is non-informed and tells the reader nothing of significance of large droplets c...

Social Aspects of the Delivery of Care

Abstract This paper uses a discourse-rhetorical approach to analyze how Ontario midwives and their clients interactionally accomplish the healthcare communicative process of “informed choice.” Working with four excerpts from recorded visits between Ontario midwives and women, the analysis focuses on the discursive rendering during informed choice conversations of two contrasting kinds of eviden...

Abortion, Spontaneous and Induced: Medical and Social Aspects

This work has been hailed as the first comprehensive review of this world problem and a survey of its content reveals that this statement is not exaggerated. The author by training and experience is well fitted for such a task and has long had a major interest in this subject. Medical practitioners will have an especial interest in the excellent chapters on diagnosis and treatment while those i...

Abortion: Spontaneous and Induced Medical and Social Aspects

The Social and Medical Aspects of Drug Abuse

The work of Abraham Wikler (1973) over the past three decades has called attention to the importance of conditioned responses in the addictive process. Drugs act as powerful forces in shaping behavior, both by their direct pleasant effects (positive reinforcement) and by their effects in relieving withdrawal symptoms (negative reinforcement). Wikler theorized that the environmental cues which h...