Sociology of Medicine

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Author's preface
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Introduction
PART I. SUBJECT MATTER IN SOCIOLOGY OF
MEDICINE
Chapter 1. Goals and objectives in sociology of medicine
1.1. Medico-sociological views on medicine, healthcare,
and the health protection system
1.2. Scientific view on the current sociomedical realities
1.3. Crisis of the research paradigm in sociology of
medicine in pre-perestroika period
1.4. Research methodology of institutional changes as
the basis of novel scientific paradigm of sociology of
medicine
1.5. Major applied tasks of sociology of medicine in the
study of sociomedical processes
Chapter 2. Methodology of definition of object field and
subject matter in sociology of medicine
2.1. Formation of subject matter in sociology of
medicine
2.2. Sociology of medicine and social hygiene
2.3. Sociology of medicine and general sociology
2.4. Subject and object in sociology of medicine
Chapter 3. Regularities in gnosiological analysis in
sociology of medicine
3.1. The levels of medico-sociological knowledge
3.2. Empirical scheme of object in sociology of medicine
3.3. Objects in medico-sociological theory
3.4. Cognition philosophical and worldview attitudes
3.5. Medico-sociological fact
3.6. Medico-sociological problem
Chapter 4. Institutional analysis in sociology of medicine
4.1. Basic scientific branches and disciplines of sociology
of medicine
4.2. Sociomedical characteristics of institutional changes
4.3. Sociocultural facets of institutional changes in
medicine and public health
4.3.1. Comparative analysis of the healthcare system
4.3.2. Sociocultural facets of public health
4.3.3. Medico-sociological view on spread of diseases
and their etiology
4.3.4. Social epidemiology
4.3.5. Mortality as medico-sociological problem
4.3.6. Sociological cognition of the effect of health and
disease on society
4.3.7. Medical education
4.4. Institutional changes in providing medical services
4.4.1. Sociology of PTC
4.4.2. Organization of medical practice
4.4.3. Consumption of medical services
4.5. Sociopsychological aspects of institutional changes
in the conduct of sociomedical groups related to
maintenance and promotion of health and to prevention
of the diseases
4.5.1. Social behavior and novel technologies to modify
it
4.5.2. Notes on the problems of stress and diseases
4.5.3. Social and group psychiatry
4.5.4. Public health
4.6. Institutional changes in public health management:
sociological approach to the problem
4.6.1. Politics and policy in public health
4.6.2. Sociology of professions related to public health
4.6.3. Social facets of healthcare economics
4.6.4. Organization and management in public health
structures
4.6.5. Legal and ethical problems
PART II. SOCIOLOGY OF MEDICINE AS A PART OF
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM
Chapter 5. Milestones in establishment of international
and russian sociology of medicine
5.1. Periodization in the development of sociology of
medicine
5.1.1. The early period (the birth of discipline) in
17th-21st centuries
5.1.2. The formation period (beginning of the 20th
century - outbreak of World War I)
5.1.3. The consolidation period (1920-40s)
5.1.4. The period of development as independent
discipline (1950-1980)
5.1.5. The modern period (form 1990s to the present
time)
5.2. Peculiarities in the development of sociology of
medicine in Russia
Chapter 6. Interdisciplinary approach as methodological
basis of sociology of medicine
6.1. Conception of interdisciplinary research
6.2. Interdisciplinary paradigm of sociology of medicine
6.3. Sociology of medicine and the study of
interdisciplinary problems
Chapter 7. Scientific schools in sociology of medicine
7.1. Formation of Western schools of sociology of
medicine
7.2. Peculiarities in research traditions of sociology of
medicine in Russia
Chapter 8. Basic achievements and perspectives of
sociology of medicine
8.1. Sociology of medicine and the development of
healthcare system
8.2 Socioeconomic facets of modern developmental
trends in sociology of medicine
8.3. Methodological and methodical support of the
medico-sociological studies
8.4. New vistas in advancing socially actual
medico-sociological problems
PART III. COMPARATIVE INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF
THE CONCEPTS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE IN MODELS
AND THEORIES OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY
Chapter 9. Biomedical model
9.1. Conceptual basis of biomedical model
9.2. Biomedical model and social pathology doctrine
Chapter 10. Theories of social accord, conflict, and the
role social models
10.1. The place of health and disease in the theories of
social conflict
10.2. Conflict as the universal tool of social regulation
10.3. Theories of social action and the social role
models
Chapter 11. Gender problems in sociology of medicine
Chapter 12. Psychoanalytical models of personality
structure
12.1. Psychoanalytical theories of Sigmund Freud,
Alfred Adler, and Carl Jung
12.2. Modern neurophysiological models of personality
structure and psychoanalysis
12.3. Psychoanalysis and sociology of medicine
12.4. Modern psychoanalytical techniques
Chapter 13. Phenomenology and social constructivism
13.1. Phenomenological model of personological
concepts
13.2. Social constructivism
Chapter 14. Interactionism and medico-sociological
studies
14.1. Conceptual basis of interactionist approach
14.2. Role of socially interactive and creative individuals
in perception and interpretation of diseases
14.3. Public medico-sociological control
14.4. Institutionality of 'ceremonial order' in public
health as the subject matter of interactionist
methodology
14.5. The reasons to look 'healthy'
14.6. Sociology of emotions
Chapter 15. Medical anthropology
15.1. Development and interaction of anthropological
studies
15.2. Medical anthropology as a part of sociology of
medicine
Chapter 16. Sociological theories and sociology of
medicine
16.1. Society as sociocultural system
16.2. Social structure of society
16.3. Institutional forms to construct the public life
16.4. Personality and society
PART IV. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND DISEASE
Chapter 17. Health as subject matter in sociology of
medicine
17.1. Health as scientific concept
17.2. Social components of individual health
Chapter 18. Modern social trends in public health
18.1. Indices of population health
18.2. Integrative indicators of population health
18.3. Public health in modern civilization
18.4. Effect of economic recession on population health
18.5. Medico-sociological studies of depopulation in
modern Russia
Chapter 19. Institutional changes in sociocultural
pattern of health and disease
19.1. Health and diseases of human beings
19.2. Social environment of individuals as a factor in
etiology of diseases
19.3. Influence of family and marriage on diseases
19.4. Impact of work on health
19.5. Lifestyle as conditional factor of health
19.6. Self-preservation behavior
PART V. SOCIOLOGY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE AND
PROFESSION
Chapter 20. Sociology of medical profession
20.1. Methodological aspects of medical profession
20.2. Historical aspects of medical profession
20.3. Deontology and biomedical ethics
20.4. Doctor and society
20.5. Doctor and patient
20.6. Moral and ethic aspects in commercial
doctor-patient relationship
Chapter 21. Sociology of medical science
21.1. Object and subject matter in medical science
21.2. Problems of interaction between medical science
and society
21.3. Collective and individual peculiarities in scientific
work
21.4. Scientific school
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