1. Medical sociology: a personal fifty year perspective.
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Straus, Robert and Straus, R
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MEDICAL sociologists , *SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL medicine , *MEDICAL care , *PUBLIC health , *MEDICINE - Abstract
This paper reviews the author's experience in becoming a medical sociologist before the field had become formalized. The contributions to medical sociology of sociologist Selden D. Bacon and physician and medical educator William R. Willard are described. The relationship of medical sociology to medical behavioral science, as experienced at the University of Kentucky, is discussed. Finally, the thesis of the author's 1957 paper on the nature and status of medical sociology is re-examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1999
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