{"title":"Allopathic medicine, profession, and capitalist ideology in India","authors":"Ronald Frankenberg","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90031-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90031-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>It is argued that, notwithstanding medical pluralism, allopathic medical ideology in India is of importance beyond health and medicine in the legitimation and reinforcement of capitalist state power. It is seen as the bearer of an urban, male, technological, hospital-based, cosmopolitan, curative, and individualistic world view. Three cases are presented—the use of medical terms in industry, the events surrounding the President's 1977 illness, and a so-called “epidemic” of poisoning amongst bonded Nagesia tribals in Madhya Pradesh. Finally, it is suggested that other forms of medical ideology have weaker social bases and can provide no institutional challenge even to an admittedly poorly organized allopathic profession.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 2","pages":"Pages 115-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90031-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18257861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health policy and traditional medicine in Singapore","authors":"Stella R. Quah","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90034-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90034-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Singapore's degree of government intervention into health policy can be seen as intermediate between the bureaucratic and market strategies which Alford delineates. In this approach, the government takes a quite tolerant if not directly encouraging approach to the several forms of traditional medicine of the several important ethnic groups in the country. To some extent this approach reflects a solution of sorts to the shortage of qualified medical personnel.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 2","pages":"Pages 149-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90034-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18256469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relations between traditional and modern medical systems","authors":"Ray H. Elling","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90027-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90027-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 2","pages":"Pages 87-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90027-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122145972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regionalization: A longitudinal case study of interorganizing","authors":"A.H. van der Zwaan","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90044-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90044-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article examines some meanings, themes and approaches concerning regionalization. The conceptual framework provides an introduction to a report of a Dutch example. First of all, the social geography is described, then the parties in the health care field and the consultants' participation. Subsequently, an extensive analysis is offered of some salient observations during the process of organizing a regional federation. They are the ways the federation was founded and developed, and the problems concerning a policy program. The analysis is intended as a contribution in this field, particularly from an empirical rather than a normative perspective.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 1","pages":"Pages 41-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90044-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18022823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90057-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90057-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 1","pages":"Page 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90057-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136850901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approaches to antenatal education","authors":"Cornelius L.E. Katona","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90042-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90042-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the assumptions underlying the practice of antenatal education. It traces the ideological basis of past attempts to educate pregnant women and their teachers, and to assess the effects of these attempts. It also charts the conflicts and alliances resulting from the contrasting ideologies, and concludes that the content, purpose and results of antenatal education must be reexamined in the light of an adequate study of the experience of childbearing. The requirements for such a study are outlined.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 1","pages":"Pages 25-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90042-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18022820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some factors for analysis in sexual assault","authors":"D.Jean Schneider, Donald Blydenburgh, Gail Craft","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90046-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90046-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sexual assaults, particularly rape, are generating increased public attention in terms of services for the victims, but as yet, little attention has been paid to causal factors and preventive measures. Data from 216 sexual assaults by a single assailant reported in Newark, New Jersey, from July 1975 to June, 1976, indicated that 80% of the victims and 67% of the assailants were under 30 years of age. The month of highest frequency was July, the day of greatest incidence, Saturday, and the period between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. included 55% of the attacks. The study also showed that 88% of the assaults were intra-ethnic. that 53% of the attacks occurred in the living quarters of one or other of the parties and that 59% of the victims were not strangers to their assailant.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 1","pages":"Pages 55-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90046-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18022825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electro-shock. Its Brain-disabling effects","authors":"Carl Salzman","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90051-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90051-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 1","pages":"Pages 78-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90051-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126708894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sociological intervention in communication and interactional processes among nurses in an obstetrics unit","authors":"Hanna Oren, Leon Epstein","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90048-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90048-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper focuses on the process of clinical medical-sociological intervention in group process. It was aimed at bringing about the understanding of processes, and the clarification of inter-role relationships and communications within the nursing service of one specific unit in a general hospital. The process of intervention is presented in terms of General Systems Theory and consists of three elements: (a) the identification of underlying behavioural factors; (b) continuous feedback by means of confrontation; (c) re-evaluation leading to corrective action.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 1","pages":"Pages 73-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90048-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18022663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Another dose of managerialism? Commentary on the consultative paper “patients first”","authors":"Andy Alaszewski, Philip Tether, Harry Mcdonnell","doi":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90040-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0271-7123(81)90040-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>On 1 April 1974 the NHS was reorganised. In July 1979 a Royal Commission Report recommended a simplification of the structure. In December 1979 the Secretary of State issued a consultative paper on the restructuring of the Service. This article critically examines the proposals and suggests that they will do little to change the pattern of NHS decision-making.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79260,"journal":{"name":"Social science & medicine. Part A, Medical sociology","volume":"15 1","pages":"Pages 3-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0271-7123(81)90040-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18022821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}