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Bloom Samuel William <1921-2006, > |
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The word as scalpel : a history of medical sociology / / Samuel W. Bloom |
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Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2002 |
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©2002 |
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0-19-774350-1 |
0-19-802364-2 |
1-4175-8757-1 |
1-280-48198-6 |
9786610481989 |
1-4237-3533-1 |
0-19-534886-9 |
1-60256-467-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (357 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Social medicine - United States - History |
Sociology - United States - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-333) and index. |
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Machine generated contents note: PART I. Medical Sociology before 1940 --1. The Origins: Medicine as Social Science, Public Health, -- and Social Medicine 11 -- 2. American Sociology before 1920: From Social Advocacy to -- Academic Legitimacy 23 -- 3. Between the World Wars 39 -- 4. The University of Chicago 63 -- 5. Regional and Intellectual Influences 83 --PART II. Medical Sociology, 1940-1980 --6. First Steps toward Social Identity: Effects of the War and -- Its Aftermath on Medical Sociology 111 -- 7. Postwar Medical Sociology: The Founders at Major -- Universities, 1945-1960 131 -- 8. The Role of NIMH, 1946-1975 155 -- 9. Becoming a Profession: The Role of the Private -- Foundations 181 -- 10. From Ad Hoc Committee to Professional Association: The -- Section on Medical Sociology, 1955- |
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1980 215 --PART III. The Current Status of Medical Sociology --11. An Era of Change, 1980-2000 247 --Notes 285 --Index 335. |
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A doctor can damage a patient as much with a misplaced word as with a slip of the scalpel. In this statement, from Lawrence J. Henderson, a famous physician whose name is part of the basic science of medicine, epitomizes the central theme of The Word as Scalpel. If words, the main substance of human relations, are so potent for harm, how equally powerful they can be to help if used with disciplined knowledge and understanding. Nowhere does this simple truth apply more certainly than in the behavior of a physician. Medical Sociology studies the full social context of health and disease, the int |
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