History, Medicine and Society

Author: Chang Jia-feng
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Introduction "History, Medicine, and Society" belongs to the humanities general education course, which approaches medical sociology from a historical perspective. The purpose of this course is to guide students in understanding the interactive relationship between medicine and society, and to inspire readers' interest in related topics through dialogues from ancient and modern China and the world. The topics include: (1) The Body (The history of the body, ancient Chinese views on the body, the body and medicine, metaphors of the body, boundaries of the body); (2) Disease (Disease and health, disease, medicine, and society, epidemics and society, metaphors of disease); (3) Pain (Pain, disease, and culture, the social significance of pain, pain and medicine); (4) Belief (Disease and religious treatment, disease, belief, and society); (5) Gender (Gender, disease, and society, women's disease and medicine, men's disease and medicine); (6) Age (Age, body, and society, pediatric medicine and history); (7) Physicians and Healthcare Providers (Patients, physicians, and caregivers, physician-patient relationships, knowledge power and medical ethics) and other themes. It also introduces recent research trends and highlights important concepts and literature.