From Medicine to Sociology. Health and Illness in Magdalena Sokołowska’s Research Conceptions

Włodzimierz Pia˛tkowski, medical sociologist, MA at Warsaw University, M. Sokołowska’s disciple and associate, elected national coordinator of European Society for Health and Medical Sociology in 1990, authored over 200 publications, including Beyond Medicine (2012), university professor of Lublin Medical University and UMCS.

• I Sturm Und Drang Periode: Social Medicine, Epidemiology and the Organization of a Socialist Health Care ServiceII “The Woman Question”: From a Biogenic to Sociological ApproachIII The Formation of the Scientific Identity of Medical Sociology: Magdalena Sokołowska’s ContributionIV Values of Practical Usefulness Studies in the Sociology of Disability and RehabilitationV “Building Bridges”: Medical Sociology and Other Sociological Subdisciplines (Sociology of the Family,Urban Sociology)VI The Sociology of the Medical Professions: The Doctor in the Health Care System and in Society