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Saturday, December 05, 2015

Medical Sociology: The Importance of 1894....2015 patient career - health career

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INTERESTINGLY, it was a physician, Dr Charles McIntire who, in 1894, in a paper entitled "The Importance of the Study of Medical Sociology", was one of the first to draw attention to the potentialities of medical sociology in the field of medicine.



Reference:
McKinlay, J.B. (1971) The concept “patient career” as a heuristic device for making medical sociology relevant to medical students. Social Science and Medicine, 5(5), 441-460.

McIntire, C. (1991) "The Importance of the Study of Medical Sociology," Sociological Practice: Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 5. Available at: http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/socprac/vol9/iss1/5

McIntire, C. (1894) "The Importance of the Study of Medical Sociology," Bulletin of American Academy of Medicine, 1, pp. 425-33