This paper focuses on the procedural challenges of using the Victim Information Forms (VIFs) to analyze survivors' experiences with the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), commonly known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. The paper takes a systematic public/medical sociology approach to examining the VIF as a participatory rights mechanism for victims wishing to pursue justice fo...

The recent development of child guidance clinics and behavior research centers presents students of human nature and social relations with new opportunities and new problems. The history of science seems to demonstrate that whenever a body of theoretical knowledge becomes oriented and useful with reference to a concrete human problem a period of rapid development ensues. The evidence for such a...

The concept of medicalization is hugely influential, and empirical studies have demonstrated that medicalization has largely been achieved not only through the work of medical professionals or scientists but also increasingly through the efforts of patients or citizens seeking to legitimize their distress through defining it as a “medical” problem. In this article, I argue that the concept of m...

inconsistencies in the quality, style and intention of the essays. Some contributors content themselves with quite straightforward empirical narrative; others have felt theoretically (or speculatively) more ambitious. Scholarly authority is likewise occasionally uneven. In this respect, however, the principal fault often does not lie with the individual authors. A number of contributors (Hall, ...

Mainstream sociological studies of intergenerational social mobility have emphasised social factors such as education and the material and cultural resources of the family of origin as the main influences on the chances and direction of social mobility. Medical sociology in contrast has been more interested in its physical correlates such as height and health status. Data from the West of Scotl...

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a unique medical site. Inherent within it‘s walls and practices are the extremes of life‘s experiences. Life and death, celebration and mourning, hopes and loss are encountered in the bodies of children amongst the dizzying array of frontier medicines and technologies. In many senses it is a strange landscape, yet for those who work or inhabit that spa...

uncovers strong gene-environment interaction for human fertility Felix C. Tropf, Renske M. Verweij, Peter J. van der Most, Gert Stulp, Andrew Bakshi, Daniel A. Briley, Matthew Robinson, Anastasia Nyman, Tõnu Esko, Andres Metspalu, Sarah E. Medland, Nicholas G. Martin, Harold Snieder, S. Hong Lee , Melinda C. Mills Department of Sociology/ Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UQ, ...

This article discusses the various meanings ascribed to the concept of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Brazil, where research on this theme has a limited tradition in terms of influences from anthropology, sociology of knowledge and epistemology, and sociology of CAM and clinical medicine. By means of the concepts identified in the literature, we elaborated a table with types of...

This paper discusses the aims and format of an introductory course in clinical sociology . It reviews the process of teaching clinical sociology as a profession and teaching the theoretical basis that distinguishes the field. Case studies, guest practitioners, and practical exercises are used to prompt an application and integration of the acquired knowledge. Ideally, the course reviewed here c...