Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education

by Brosnan; Caragh

• ISBN13: 9780415460446
• ISBN10: 0415460441
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Educationprovides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century. Beginning with reflections on the historical and theoretical foundations of the sociology of medical education, the collection then focuses on current issues affecting medical students, the profession and the faculty, before exploring medical education in different national contexts. Leading sociologists analyze: the intersection of medical education and social structures such as gender, ethnicity and disability; the effect of changes in medical practice, such as the emergence of evidence-based medicine, on medical education; and the ongoing debates surrounding the form and content of medical curricula. By examining applied problems within a framework which draws from social theorists such as Pierre Bourdieu, this new collection suggests future directions for the sociological study of medical education and for medical education itself.

Author Biography

Caragh Brosnan is a Research Associate in the Centre for Biomedicine and Society at King's College London. While undertaking work on the handbook, she was a Lecturer in Medial Education in the Medical School at Keele University. She completed her doctoral thesis, 'The Sociology of Medical Education: the struggle for legitimate knowledge in two English medical schools', at the University of Cambridge in 2007. Bryan S. Turner was Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge (1998-2005) and at the National University of Singapore (2005-2009). He is currently the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College, US. He has published The New MEdical Sociology (2004) and The Baby and Society(2008).

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. viii
Notes on contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction: the struggle over medical knowledge	p. 1
Theoretical perspectives	p. 13
The hidden curriculum: a theory of medical education	p. 15
From classification to integration: Bernstein and the sociology of medical education	p. 36
Pierre Bourdieu and the theory of medical education: thinking 'relationally' about medical students and medical curricula	p. 51
Key issues: medical students and medical knowledge	p. 69
Medical-school culture	p. 71
Gender and medical education	p. 89
The inclusion of disabled people in medical education	p. 106
The status of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in biomedical education: towards a critical engagement	p. 122
Evidence-based medicine and medical education	p. 139
Crisis or renaissance? A sociology of anatomy in UK medical education	p. 156
Bioethics and medical education: lessons from the United States	p. 174
Sociology in medical education	p. 191
Epistemology, medical science and problem-based learning: introducing an epistemological dimension into the medical-school curriculum	p. 207
Medical education in national contexts	p. 225
Medical education and the American healthcare system	p. 227
Tomorrow's Doctors, a changing profession: reformation in the UK medical-education system	p. 242
The challenges to achieving self-sufficiency in Canadian medical education	p. 261
Innovations in medical education: European convergence, politics and culture	p. 296
Index	p. 296
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