SOCI 425 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Aum Shinrikyo, Gonorrhea, Index Medicus
15 Sep 2016
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Social inequality based on race and ethnic group: social factor are important in influencing the manner in which societies organize their resources to cope with health hazards and deliver health care to the population at large. The development of medical sociology: earliest works were undertaken by physicians not sociologists, john shaw billings. Wrote about hygiene and sociology in 1879: the term medical sociology. In a medical article by charles mcintire on the importance of social factors in health: elizabeth blackwell. 1902 first woman to graudate medical school in 1902: medical sociology did not begin until after world war ii, in the late. This is when significant federal funding came into play. Did not concern themselves with the role of medicine in society: a circumstance that affected medical sociology was the pressure to produce work that can be applied to medical practice and the formulation of health policy.
