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Afaf Ibrahim Meleis (born 1942) is an Egyptian-American nurse-scientist, researcher, and medical sociologist. [1] She is a Professor of Nursing and Sociology and Dean Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania, where she served from 2002 through 2014. [1]
Medical sociology is the sociological analysis of health, Illness, differential access to medical resources, the social organization of medicine, Health Care Delivery, the production of medical knowledge, selection of methods, the study of actions and interactions of healthcare professionals, and the social or cultural (rather than clinical or bodily) effects of medical practice. [1]
Shawna Hudson is an American medical sociologist and primary care researcher who is a professor at the Rutgers University. She is the Henry Rutgers Chair of Family Medicine and Community Health and Vice Chancellor for the Dissemination and Implementation Science. She was elected member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.
Brown was born in Portobello, London, in 1930, as one of non-identical twins.His father was a lens maker and his mother had been a waitress. He left school at 16 and initially moved between a number of jobs, including work in the Post Office [clarification needed].
Anselm Leonard Strauss (December 18, 1916 – September 5, 1996) was an American sociologist professor at the University of California, San Francisco internationally known as a medical sociologist (especially for his pioneering attention to chronic illness and dying) and as the developer (with Barney Glaser) of grounded theory, an innovative method of qualitative analysis widely used in ...
She was a key contributor to the reconceptualisation of medicine as a healing system in a wider societal context, rather than simply concerned with the interactions in the clinic; a 'sociology of health and healing', rather than 'medical sociology'. Her work in the sociology of health and healing has influenced policy and medical education. [4]
Jutel researches the sociology of medical diagnosis. [6] She has examined how social and cultural aspects affect the experience of health, illness,and disease. She is also interested in how diagnoses are represented in literature and popular culture.
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