When Lawrence and Penny Higgins of Fairfield, Maine, first learned in 2020 that high levels of toxic chemicals called PFAS ...

A patient who has chronic symptoms but no objective indications of a disease risks being perceived as problematic or troublesome, and the doctor risks appearing incompetent or not very compassionate.

OU Sociology PhD Student, Leslie Miller, has her research highlighted on the United Ostomy Association of America (UOAA) Website. Results from Miller’s research show that many hospitals are ill ...

We wanna make sure that our medical students are strong connoisseur of the literature that's there, that they can actually discriminate between a good piece of science versus a piece of science ...

Aribah Tahir, a Redwine Presidential Scholar, graduated from Midwestern State University with double majors in psychology and chemistry and double minors in biology and medical sociology. Tahir ...

Material and methods For the purposes of the study, we elaborated an original questionnaire, which was later refined through three interviews with hospital chaplains and two consultations with a group ...

Drawing on debates within Medical Sociology and Cultural Studies this article explores how the qualities, norms and ethics represented by doctors in space (ships) are intertwined with issues of gender ...

The Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research (I³R) at the University of Arkansas is proud to announce that Dr. Mohsen Bazargan, an accomplished medical sociologist, has joined I³R as a ...

They also learn how to interpret human factors related to illness and wellness such as the biology of aging, the psychology of health, the social context of drug use, health care systems, medical ...

Many of the participants submitted original research to the conference, with a total of 73 papers presented on the topics of narrative medicine, medical sociology, philosophy of medicine, medical ...

Editorial Archive Medical Sociology Published January 3, 1946 N Engl J Med 1946;234: 32 - 33 DOI: 10.1056/NEJM194601032340109 ...

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Studies in Medical Sociology ...