Qualitative medical sociology: what are its crowning achievements?

被引:7
作者
Chard, JA [1 ]
Lilford, RJ [1 ]
Court, BV [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Birmingham, Dept Epidemiol & Publ Hlth, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
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10.1177/014107689709001104
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要
Doctors and epidemiologists seldom read or cite qualitative medical sociology; it is little published in medical journals. A large number of articles bewail this lack and provide arguments explaining and justifying the subject. Any examples used in such articles are selected ad hoc. We made a systematic search for the literature and used citation analysis to select the world's top 100 articles. We analysed this trawl and provide resumes of a selection from the 'classics'. Mental health and the organization of medicine are the themes within medical sociology with highest impact. Much highly cited work consists of historical and theoretical analysis done Lat the desk' rather than observation or interview 'in the field'. Citation rates, even for the most famous works in medical sociology, are a small fraction of those for high impact biomedical research.
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