In the United Kingdom, the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists suggests that sociology should be included within the speech and language therapy curriculum. However, in spite of this, sociology is seldom given priority. Although the role of sociology with the curricula of other professions has been discussed, the role of sociology within speech and language therapy has not. Given th...

The biomedical and public health sciences have established a clear warrant for their existence. A warrant is a broadly shared justification for a research-based discipline (Katz, 1997). From the post World War II WHO proclamation aiming for “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being” to a recent reconceptualization of health as “the ability to adapt and self-manage” (Huber et ...

Author details Stockholm Centre for Health and Social Change (SCOHOST), Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, 141 89 Huddinge, Sweden. European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (ECOHOST), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Department of Human Ecology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Departmen...

Public health asks of systems science, as it did of sociology 40 years ago, that it help us unravel the complexity of causal forces in our varied populations and the ecologically layered community and societal circumstances of public health practice. We seek a more evidence-based public health practice, but too much of our evidence comes from artificially controlled research that does not fit t...

The industrialization of episodic medicine was not the original intent of the market idealists of the early 1970s who favored health maintenance organizations. Many of them regard chain hospitals and emergicenters as the antithesis of what they had in mind. They wanted corporate involvement to change the nature of health care; it seems likely, in the foreseeable future, to reproduce the defects...

this article tries to familiarize the reader with those minor areas of sociology that have many capabilities for reading research issues by studying the historical movement and philosophical fields of shaping historical sociology. the article also explains the reasons of obsoleteness of this effective method of recognizing and defining the domination of quantitative strategies over sociology by...