期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2013
卷号：20
期号：3
页码：613-623
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Introduction and objective: The presented analysis is a reconstruction of the origins, inspirations for development, and theoretical foundations of the critical and unmasking trend in Polish and Western medical sociology. Abbreviated description of the state of knowledge: As a part of the critical medical sociology initiated in Poland by Professor Magdalena Soko.owska, a diagnosis of the (dys)func tionality of contemporary medicine is carried out, emphasizing pathologies in the realization of its basic social functions, both at the level of systemic and institutional solutions, as well as stressing their consequences which include inter alia social health inequalities. Within the critical sociomedical research orientation, the diagnoses of the social role of medicine and distortions in the ways it is exercised are placed in the broad structural, political, and cultural contexts, which makes it possible to point to the principal causes of the analyzed phenomena. Summary: The crucial 'value added' of critical sociological analyses of medicine and health polic y are direc tives intended to humanize medicine and health systems in contemporary societies, taking social and cultural realities into consideration. We understand the humanization of medicine in terms of its better adjustment to human needs that emerge in the situations of illness and being ill, with the simultaneous guarantee of universal and equal access to medical services
关键词：medical sociology; sociology of health and illness; sociology of medicine; sociology of health policy; critical sociology
