Main description:

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 Sokolowska (1922-1989). 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.

Contents:

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 Sokolowska's 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