[Teaching sociology in medical school].

As early as in 1994 medical education was criticised by the Royal College of Physician in London. Nevertheless until 1978 D. C. Maddision was still asking the question: "What's wrong with medical education?", and Abrahamson writing a paper called "Disease of the (medical) curriculum". Since the 1950s social and behavioural sciences have been gradually brought into the curriculum in order to pursue better medical care. In the 1970s critics of medicine went beyond its economical and political aspects, ie. its maldistribution etc., to its cultural side. Not only the efficacy of modern medicine but its moral neutrality and benevolence were called into question. This paper is mainly based on the writer's personal experience of teaching sociology and medical sociology in a medical school in Taiwan. The debate on relevance, the difficulties and problems in teaching and suggestions for the future are covered.