The book presents the history of development of medical sociology in Poland and Europe from the 1950s to the late 1980s. It shows the evolution of studies on health and illness from the biomedical to sociological approach.

This monograph is the first book in medical sociology that comprehensively describes the research conceptions of the co-founder of the European medical sociology, Professor Magdalena Sokoowska (19221989). The study characterizes the stages of formation of the scientific foundations of medical sociology in Europe: the evolution of approach to the phenomena of health and illness from the medical to sociological perspective, the development of feminist studies in medical sociology, the emergence of scientific identity of the subdiscipline, models of interdisciplinary studies on health, and research into complementary and alternative medicine.

Autorentext

W odzimierz Piätkowski, medical sociologist, MA at Warsaw University, M. Soko owskäs disciple and associate, elected national coordinator of European Society for Health and Medical Sociology in 1990, authored over 200 publications, including Beyond Medicine (2012), university professor of Lublin Medical University and UMCS.

Inhalt

I Sturm Und Drang Periode: Social Medicine, Epidemiology and the Organization of a Socialist Health Care Service II The Woman Question : From a Biogenic to Sociological Approach III The Formation of the Scientific Identity of Medical Sociology: Magdalena Soköowskäs Contribution IV Values of Practical Usefulness Studies in the Sociology of Disability and Rehabilitation V Building Bridges : Medical Sociology and Other Sociological Subdisciplines (Sociology of the Family, Urban Sociology) VI The Sociology of the Medical Professions: The Doctor in the Health Care System and in Society