Revija za sociologiju, Vol. 6 No. 2-3, 1976.
Pregledni rad
About Development of Medical Sociology in West Germany
Jagoda Rubčić
; Zagreb, Gundulićeva 40
Sažetak
Medical sociology in West Germany is a rather new science; sociologists and physicians had had a number of discussions about its subject before it was constituted.
Systematization appeared as the first problem of that sociological branch. At the beginning, the american division on sociology of medicine and sociology in medicine, was being used. Schelsky tried to overcome that dualism by suggesting that »one science becomes subject of another one, meaning that the total institutional complex and the complex of medical activity in he widest sense« become subject of the sociological analysis. According to him, the problem of that discipline is sociological. Conceptual disagreement between physicians and sociologists caused a competitive conflict between the »exact medicine« and »socio-scientific« sociology.
Further efforts were made towards consolidation of those approaches. A role of physicians, sanitary service and hospital represented the most important problems (as a starting point.of research). The third field of medical sociology is was represented by the analysis of health and illness, and its scientific determination should be conceived as a complex result of biological and social conditions. After such introductory discussions the first empiric researches appeared. At the beginning of the sixties, the students of medicine, using first reflections, made a request for the more critic researches of medical institutions. Thus a radical tendency followed, and in medical sociology in West Germany there appeared: a) cabinet comprehension of medicine with a plaidoyer for little changes within the system and b) engaged conception of medical sociology aiming at changes of the existing system.
Medical sociology is institutionalized nowadays. After medical-sociological society had been founded, sociology was introduced as an obligatory subject in the medical educational system.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
156167
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Datum izdavanja:
30.9.1976.
Posjeta: 874 *