Key Findings from 50 years of Medical Sociology

In: Contexts / American Sociological Association: understanding people in their social worlds, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 28-32

Abstract

For much of 2009 and early 2010, discussions of health care policies dominated national discourse in the United States. The prolonged and often acrimonious debates brought into sharp focus the enormous, complex, and highly fragmented system that provides health care in the United States. Considerable attention was also devoted to demonstrating the advanced state of this country's medical knowledge, technology, and health services.