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Zusatztext . . . deeply perceptive and richly documented . . . Informationen zum Autor Samuel W. Bloom is Professor of Sociology and Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. Klappentext "A doctor can damage a patient as much with a misplaced word as with a slip of the scalpel." In this statement, from Lawrence J. Henderson, a famous physician whose name is part of the basic science of medicine, epitomizes the central theme of The Word as Scalpel. If words, the main substanceof human relations, are so potent for harm, how equally powerful they can be to help if used with disciplined knowledge and understanding. Nowhere does this simple truth apply more certainly than in the behavior of a physician. Medical Sociology studies the full social context of health and disease, the interpersonal relations, social institutions, and the influence of social factors on the problems of medicine. Throughout its history, medical sociology divides naturally into two parts: the pre-modern, represented byvarious studies of health and social problems in Europe and the United States until the second World War, and the modern post-war period. The modern period has seen rapid growth and the achievement of the full formal panoply of professionalism. This engaging account documents the development of professional associations, official journals, and programs of financial support, both private and governmental. Written by a distinguished pioneer in medical sociology, The Word as Scalpel is a definitive study of a relatively new, but criticallyimportant field. Zusammenfassung Medical Sociology is now an established subdiscipline in both medicine and sociology. This book traces the intellectual and institutional evolution of the field in relation to antecedents of the past 2000 years and developments in American sociology and medicine since the turn of the century. Drawing on his own experience as a participant and witness as well as from diverse fields, Samuel W. Bloom provides an engaging account of the ongoing search for knowledge about the relationship between illness, medicine, and society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Medical sociology before 1940 1: The origins: Medicine as social science, public health and social medicine 2: American sociology before 1920: From social advocacy to academic legitimacy 3: Between the world wars 4: The University of Chicago 5: Regional and intellectual influences Part II: Medical sociology, 1940-1980 6: First steps toward social identity: Effects of the war and its aftermath on medical sociology 7: Postwar medical sociology: the founders at major universities, 1945-1960 8: The role of NIMH, 1946-1975 9: Becoming a profession: The role of private foundations 10: From ad hoc committee to professional association: The section on medical sociology, 1955-1980 Part III: The current status of medical sociology 11: An era of change, 1980-2000 ...
