In these times, when our social and political inadequacies in dealing with the advances wrought by nuclear fission are so apparent, it is encouraging to find that forward-looking men in medicine and the social sciences are working together to bridge that gap between their respective fields of interest. Although the authors point out that the practice of medicine at large or in the hospital in p...

sociology of literature, on the one hand, is related to sociology and ,on the other hand, to literature.this approach mainly focuses on the structure and the content of the literary work and its relation to the society. it also scrutinizes the interaction between literature and the society as well as how the writer reflects social issues from intellectual, religious and social perspectives inth...

The American Association for the Advancement of Scientific Apparatus and Laboratory Methods: Science: A Device for Automatically Plotting Changes in Trends in Social Scienice: PROFESSOR WILLIAM Rate of an Interrupted Signal: PROFESSOR ROBERT FIELDING OGBURN .............................. 257 GESELL. A Gas Thermostat: A. J. BAILEY .................. 275 Obituary: Special Articles: Roy Lee Moodie...

Medicine. By Leo W. Simmons fe? Harold G. Wolff. New York, 1954. Russell Sage Foundation. $3.50. 254 pp. Medical and public interest has formerly been focussed more on bacteriological and pharmacological advances and the result has been inevitably some neglect of the patient as a person; the pendulum is now swinging back and it is somewhat ironic that it has been necessary to invent a new term?...

Let us start with an example of health policy analysis in action. Within that category of countries loosely known as ‘the West’, quite basic differences exist in attitudes to health policy and also actual health policy. Comparing the US with mainland Europe and indeed Canada, for example, one perceives a difference in attitude on the part of the majority towards collectivism and individualism i...

Abstract Introduction: Social capital has potential effects on reproductive health and childbearing behaviors. However, there is limited information about its relationship with childbearing. Objective: This study aimed to explore female healthcare providers' experiences of childbearing based on the social capital theory. Materials and Methods: This qualitative study was conducted from July ...