a Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia b Programa de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia c Faculty of Applied Human Studies, University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg and Stendal, Germany d Integrated Research and Treatment Center Adiposity Diseases, Leipzig University Medical Center, Germany e...

Given the broad and eclectic nature of the sociology of health and medicine, any account needs to attend to the substantive research topics as well as the theoretical frameworks that have underpinned or justified the approach to research. As noted in the Prologue, theoretical frameworks derived from sociology (an inherently fragmented discipline [Johnson et al., 1984]) predominate in the sociol...

THIS book discusses the management outside hospital of common paediatric problems encountered in the community. The topics selected are well written, informative and expertly illustrated. It helps fill a gap left by the much larger number of hospital based paediatric books and provides relevant information for general practitioners, community based paediatricians and medical students. Although ...

The objective of this article is to analyze the discourse of sexual excess produced by Brazilian social thinking in the 1920s and 1930s and its dialog with the medical discourse at the time. Inspired by Foucault, it is within the field of the history of knowledge and is supported by sociology and medical documents from the period in question.Within the framework of the twentieth century re-codi...

For the past two decades, evidence-based medicine (EBM), or the reliance on current scientific evidence to reach medical decisions, has been embraced as a new paradigm to standardize clinical care. Drawing from in-depth interviews with seventeen pediatric residents in two residency programs, we evaluate the extent to which the medical sociology scholarship on uncertainty analytically elucidates...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE The main research objective is a study of social influences on the processes of experiencing illness in the sociological meaning of the term 'illness experience' focusing attention on the subjective activity inspired by being ill, taking into account interpretive (meaning-making) activity. The goal of the analysis is to specify 'social actors' jointly creating the phe...

One key concept in medical sociology/anthropology for the analysis of approaches to health and illness is the medical model. However, this medical model is not only applied at the analytical level, i.e. as a sociological tool, but it also appeals to health service providers at a practical level as a model of working practice. This paper challenges the uncritical use of the medical model by prac...

M.R. Bury has radically questioned the value of social constructionism for medical sociology (1986). The present authors have already responded to this wide-ranging critique (Nicolson and McLaughlin 1987). This article aims to complement our theoretical discussion by embodying its principles in empirical case study. A recent debate surrounding the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis is analysed ...

Over the past twenty years, there has been considerable interest in individuals' experience of chronic illness. In addition to the more established concerns of medical sociology, recent policy reflects an interest in how individuals manage their condition. Using material from qualitative interviews with 23 individuals carried out in the United Kingdom, this paper examines a person's experience ...

together with a consideration of the important similarities and common ground it shares with medical sociology, its sister discipline. They argue cogently for the data and models of the latter to be taken into account by anthropologists interested in the social and cultural dimensions of health and disease. Their basic anthropological tenets are first the "adaptive" nature of health-related beh...