From Medicine to Sociology. Health and Illness in Magdalena Sokołowska’s Research Conceptions

von Włodzimierz Piątkowski

276 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 Sokołowska (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.

• Reihe: Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Soziologie Sozialtheorie
• ISBN: 9783631806661
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.03.2020
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften