The Encapsulation of the Modern Hospital in Society : A Critical Perspective

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概要

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• Hospitals are a major institution in contemporary society. They are the physical site and the organizational venue for the delivery of technologically sophisticated treatment and skillful, solicitous professional care to patients. Hospitals are thus a means employed to achieve the best possible medical outcome for the patient. However, from a critical perspective, they are not simply a functional or utilitarian means toward an end. Hospitals additionally have high symbolic value as an index of modern medicine and of general societal modernity. If there is an excess of symbolic value over functional utility, then it is possible to speak sociologically of "encapsulation." This article explores the encapsulation of the hospital in both developing and industrial societies, drawing upon the sociological theories of Peter Berger and Talcott Parsons.

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著者

• ギャラガー ユージン

  Univeristy Of Kentucky

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