WHAT IS MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY ?
WHAT IS MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY ? (BSC -APPLIED SOCIOLOGY) INTRODUCTION Medical sociology is concerned with the relationship between social factors and health, and with the application of sociological theory and research techniques to questions related to health and the health care system. Medical sociology is concerned with the relationship between social factors and health, and with the application of sociological theory and research techniques to questions related to health and the health care system. 😊 SOCIOLOGIST TALCOTT PARSON Sociologist Talcott Parsons is one of the founding fathers of medical sociology, and applied social role theory to interactional relations between sick people and others. If sociology is the systematic study of human behavior in society, medical sociology is the systematic study of how humans manage issues of health and illness, disease and disorders, and health care for both the sick and th...