The word as scalpel : a history of medical sociology / Samuel W. Bloom.
Bloom, Samuel William, 1921-2006.
2002
RA418.3.U6 B56 2002eb
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Title
The word as scalpel : a history of medical sociology / Samuel W. Bloom.
Author
Bloom, Samuel William, 1921-2006.
ISBN
9781417587575 (electronic book)
1602564671 (electronic book)
9781423735335 (electronic book)
1423735331 (electronic book)
9781602564671 (electronic book)
9780198023647 (electronic book)
0198023642 (electronic book)
9780195348866 (electronic book)
0195348869 (electronic book)
9780195072327
0195072324
9780195149296
0195149297
Publication Details
New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 348 pages)
Call Number
RA418.3.U6 B56 2002eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.4/61/0973
Summary
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. Drawing on his own experience as a participant and witness as well as from diverse fields, the author provides an account of the ongoing search for knowledge about relationship between illness, medicine, and society.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-333) and index.
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Word as scalpel.
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Medical sociology before 1940. Origins : medicine as social science, public health, and social medicine
American sociology before 1920 : from social advocacy to academic legitimacy
Between the World Wars
University of Chicago
Regional and intellectual influences
Medical sociology, 1940-1980. First steps toward social identity : effects of the war and its aftermath on medical sociology
Postwar medical sociology : the founders at major universities, 1945-1960
Role of NIMH, 1946-1975
Becoming a profession : the role of the private foundations
From ad hoc committee to professional association : the section on medical sociology, 1955-1980
Current status of medical sociology. Era of change, 1980-2000.

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