Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract/Objectives

Medical sociology aims to understand health, disease, illness, medical treatment, and care from a sociological perspective. Unlike the view that reduces health or illness to pure biology, or the view that separates medical treatment from its socio-cultural context, medical sociology sees health, disease, illness, medical treatment, and care as products of entangling social, cultural, political, economic, and technoscientific factors.

Results/Contributions

Some of the themes covered in this course include the following: social production of health and illness; stigma; syndemics; disablement; lay experiences of illness; social construction of illness; the rise of modern medicine; medicalization; classification & diagnosis; biomedicalization; medical uncertainty; practices of medicine and care; life and care from postcolonial perspective; patient–doctor relationships; alternative healing; health social movements; health professions; digital health; health from ecological perspectives.

Keywords

health, disease, illness, medicine, care

Contact Information

曾柏嘉
tsengpc@mx.nthu.edu.tw