Chard J A, Lilford R J, Court B V
Department of Public Health & Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK.
J R Soc Med. 1997 Nov;90(11):604-9. doi: 10.1177/014107689709001104.
Doctors and epidemiologists seldom read or cite qualitative medical sociology; it is little published in medical journals. A large number of articles bewail this lack and provide arguments explaining and justifying the subject. Any examples used in such articles are selected ad hoc. We made a systematic search for the literature and used citation analysis to select the world's top 100 articles. We analysed this trawl and provide resumés of a selection from the 'classics'. Mental health and the organization of medicine are the themes within medical sociology with highest impact. Much highly cited work consists of historical and theoretical analysis done 'at the desk' rather than observation or interview 'in the field'. Citation rates, even for the most famous works in medical sociology, are a small fraction of those for high impact biomedical research.
医生和流行病学家很少阅读或引用定性医学社会学的文献;这类文献在医学期刊上发表得很少。大量文章对这种缺乏表示哀叹,并提供了解释和证明该学科合理性的论据。此类文章中使用的任何例子都是临时挑选的。我们对文献进行了系统检索,并使用引文分析选出了世界上排名前100的文章。我们分析了这次检索结果,并提供了一些“经典”文献的摘要。心理健康和医学组织是医学社会学中影响最大的主题。许多被高度引用的作品是“案头”上的历史和理论分析,而非“实地”观察或访谈。即使是医学社会学中最著名的作品,其被引用率也只是高影响力生物医学研究的一小部分。