448 - Section on Medical Sociology Paper Session. The Social Organization of Medicine

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Modern medicine wields the authority to set many of the conditions for being recognizably and legitimately ill, and it controls many of the circumstances of treatment. This session welcomes papers touching on any dimension of medicine’s social organization, including but not limited to the following questions: How is the experience of obtaining and providing health care structured by factors such as the culture, status, role and education of patients and physicians, and the position of each in community and professional networks? How does the financial structuring of healthcare delivery positively or negatively impact professional and organizational objectives and practices in the clinical setting? How do institutional policies manifest in medical practices, shaping physicians’ experiences of administering care and patients’ experiences of being ill? Conceptual and theoretically-informed empirical papers utilizing qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods are welcome.

Sub Unit

• Section on Medical Sociology / The Social Organization of Medicine

Session Organizers

• Daniel A. Menchik, Michigan State University

• Hyeyoung Oh, CUNY - Lehman College

Presider

• Daniel A. Menchik, Michigan State University

Individual Presentations

• Bridging Labor in the Hospital and the Organizational Contexts of Infection Prevention - Fabio Rojas, Indiana University; Lauren Apgar, Indiana University; Emily Meanwell, Indiana University; Clayton Thomas, Indiana University; Shibashis Mukherjee

• Solitary and Supported Autonomy: Hospital Structure and its Impacts on Graduate Medical Education - Tania M. Jenkins, University of Chicago

• The Intersection of Lay and Professional Networks: Community Ties and Perceptions of Mental Health Treatment Providers - Brea Louise Perry, Indiana University; Erin Pullen, Indiana University

• When Drugs Kill: Cognitive Structures in the Production of Evidence - Mathijs de Vaan, UC Berkeley