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THE HOSPITAL AS A SMALL SOCIETY
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Menchik, Daniel. 2010. “THE HOSPITAL AS A SMALL SOCIETY”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/the-hospital-as-a-small-society.

Abstract

The sociological study of medicine has long captured how professions and organizations structure the modern world. In this course we will explore this research by examining such topics as: how deviance is transformed to "sickness," how institutions produce insanity, and how medical students manage the uncertainty implicit in interpreting science and...

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Subject Area(s):
Medical Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400

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