You can a make a big impact in your community's health by understanding its cultural, social, and psychological influencers. With a PhD in Medical Sociology, you'll be prepared for a career as a ...

Sociologists teach in most U.S. medical schools. Because the medical school environment is unique, sociologists working there must adjust course content and methods of presentation to be successful.

This article notes an enduring ambivalence in medical sociology concerning the epistemology and ontology of disease and shows this is precisely an ambivalence concerning whether biomedical disease ...

On February 3, 2017, Professor Heidi Taylor, Department of Sociology, Bates College presented the fourth event of the Sociology Research Luncheon informal presentation on “Observational Methods in ...

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Sociology, Harvard Medical School PhD, Sociology, Brandeis University MA, Sociology, Brandeis University BA, Philosophy, Haverford College Susan E. Bell, PhD, is ...

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Whether lying on their back, all-fours position, sitting upright or squatting—women adopt different birthing positions during childbirth. What has not yet been researched is how the respective final ...

"KNOW thyself" is a wise command. For physicians, knowledge of themselves implies a judgment whether or not they are doing a good job in an imperfect world. For the individual physician, this judgment ...