What is the difference between sociology of medicine and sociology in medicine?

Answer 1

Sociology IN nursing would address sociological knowledge which would help the nurse do her or his job. The "big three" of sociology (gender, race and class) would be examples of how this might work- for example do women who are diabetic have a different way of dealing with their Diabetes based on their social gender roles? Sociology OF nursing would address the study of nurses themselves and how social factors or forces affect the roles of the nurse and the evolution of the profession of nursing.

Answer 2

MANOJ SUJI

Tribhuvan university, Nepal.

there are differences between the sociology of medicine and the sociology of medicine . sociology in medicine refers to the more sociological study of medicine. In other word it can be said that the medicine can be better studied from the sociological perspective . this perspective focus on the variations in the attitude and behaviours regarding health and illness .Variation in the sense that society is startifed in terms of caste , ethnicity, religion ,occupation, Age, sex ,education , class , etc . Different society has different view to treat the diseases . similarly they also have different attitude to perceive and understand the illness and diseases. For instance , disease also categorise high status of disease and low status of disease . TB and leprosy are considered as low status of disease whereas Diabetes is considered as high status of disease . At the same time socioloyg in medicine looks at the how people are oriented towards the specific diseases ; how they use language to term the disease in past and how they term at present time ? for example 'Disability ' was considered social stigma but at present time the same term disability is considered people are differently able and they can participate in every social and cultural events and activities ; as being disability no one should be discriminated . so , the sociology in medicine attempts to explore and explanation these things .

The sociology of medicine is quite different than the sociology in medicine . It is much more narrow view to look at the medicine .It is basically focus on how the health organisation runs , what is the training system and criteria of health professionals and their relation inter professional and intra professional .