Calnan M
Health Services Research Unit, University of Kent, Canterbury, England.
Int J Health Serv. 1988;18(2):311-22. doi: 10.2190/68KT-L4PX-LHT7-2VW9.
Sociologists appear to differ in the way they portray the public's ideas about modern medicine. Some argue that the public accepts that modern medicine is effective, and others say that as a whole the public is skeptical about its value. There is a dearth of empirical evidence about what the public thinks of modern medicine; this pilot study attempts to fill this gap. Tape-recorded interviews were carried out with small samples of women from Social Classes I and II and Classes IV and V to find out what they felt about the value of modern medicine and to identify the criteria that they used to assess a "good" and "bad" medical practitioner. The results showed that there is some degree of skepticism about the value of modern medicine, particularly amongst working-class people. However, the criteria for assessing the performance of a medical practitioner were only rarely seen to be tied up with the criteria used to assess the value of modern medicine.
社会学家在描绘公众对现代医学的看法时似乎存在差异。一些人认为公众认可现代医学是有效的，而另一些人则表示总体而言公众对其价值持怀疑态度。关于公众对现代医学的看法，缺乏实证证据；这项初步研究试图填补这一空白。对来自社会阶层一、二以及四、五的少量女性样本进行了录音访谈，以了解她们对现代医学价值的看法，并确定她们用来评估“好”“坏”医生的标准。结果表明，人们对现代医学的价值存在一定程度的怀疑，尤其是在工人阶级中。然而，评估医生表现的标准很少与用于评估现代医学价值的标准联系在一起。
