Culyer A J
Soc Sci Med. 1985;20(10):1013-21. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(85)90257-6.
Eleven papers in medical sociology, recommended as representative by the Medical Sociology Group of the British Sociology Association, are evaluated by a health economist using five criteria: appeal of intellectual content, insights into political philosophy, explanatory power, predictive power and opportunities for social improvements. The paper concludes that the medical sociology literature is quite weak when judged by these criteria, though stronger on some than others. Sociologists often seem to confuse issues that involve value judgements with ones that do not, and generally seem to display a disconcerting obsession with methodological issues of the most fundamental kind that has inhibited medical sociology from developing interesting analyses of many issues on which, in principle, it ought to have much to offer.
英国社会学协会医学社会学小组推荐的11篇医学社会学论文，由一位健康经济学家依据五项标准进行评估：知识内容的吸引力、对政治哲学的见解、解释力、预测力以及社会改善的机会。论文得出结论，按照这些标准来评判，医学社会学文献相当薄弱，不过在某些方面比其他方面要强一些。社会学家似乎常常将涉及价值判断的问题与不涉及价值判断的问题混为一谈，而且总体上似乎令人不安地痴迷于最基本的方法论问题，这阻碍了医学社会学对许多问题展开有趣的分析，而从原则上讲，医学社会学本应对这些问题大有可为。
