Improving HIV/AIDS care through treatment advocacy: going beyond client education to empowerment by facilitating client–provider relationships Matt G. Mutchler a b , Glenn Wagner c , Burt O. Cowgill d , Tara McKay b e , Brian Risley f & Laura M. Bogart g a Department of Sociology, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA, USA b Community Based Research, AIDS Project Los Angeles,...

John Goldthorpe is one of Britain’s most eminent sociologists and a strong advocate of quantitative sociology. In this concise and accessible book, he provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology which focus on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations. Through these developments, Goldthorpe shows how sociology has become more securely placed w...

Awad E Osman1*, Habiba Alsafar2, Guan K Tay3, Jasem BJM Theyab4, Mohamed Mubasher1, Nezar Eltayeb-El Sheikh1, Hanan AlHarthi1, Michael H. Crawford5 and Gehad El Ghazali6 1PCLM, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh 11525, Saudi Arabia 2Khalifa University of Science Technology and Research, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 3Centre for Forensic Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, West...

In 2021, the sociological service of State Budgetary Institution «Research Institute for Healthcare Organization and Medical Management Moscow Department» celebrates its 5th anniversary; this article partly reflects on experience gained during operation. The examines current challenges medical sociology in healthcare management, among which are need to change present work culture with feedback,...

Erving Goffman's Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates is a key text in the sociology of mental illness. It is sometimes seen simplistically as a paradigm of'antipsychiatry', and as a key step in the triumph of community psychiatry over narrower, medical models of mental illness. Reading Asylums today, however, reveals that this portrayal does not capture ...