Eighteen years experience of teaching medical anthropology at a Hungarian medical school offers insight into the dynamics of interference between the rationalist epistemological tradition of biomedicine as one of the central paradigms of modernism and the cultural relativism of medical anthropology, as cultural anthropology is considered to be one of the generators of postmodern thinking. Traci...

In this medical anthropology paper, I offer to the discussion a counter-intuitive hypothesis: “medicalization is clinical judgment inherited by functionalist sociology of deviance. that respect, society an organism can be afflicted

sociology of medical education is an area of sociology that could well link the two fields of medical sciences and social sciences together. sociologists believe that the scope of medical science deals with problems and realities much graeter than medical techniques and practices, of which sociology of medical education, described as one of the effective institutions of society as well as medic...

a Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, United States b Department of Education Policy Studies, Pennsylvania State University, United States c Department of Neurology, Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, United States d Department of Radiology, Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, United States e Group for Analysis of Development (GRADE), L...

Jochen Hardt, Malgorzata Dragan, Sonja Schultz, Anette Engfer Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, School of Medicine, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany; Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; Psychosomatics, Hohenfeld-Kliniken, Bad Camberg, Hessen, Germany; FB 2: Psychology, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Ge...