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Sociology in the Field of Health and Health in the Field of Sociology: Challenges of the Sociology of Health
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC15 Sociology of Health (host committee)
Language: Spanish, French and English
Session Type: Oral
Despite the long tradition of research in the Sociology of Health, the scope of the subjects investigated and the possible fields of application present important challenges for the analysis of the constitution of this area of knowledge. The complexity is one of several puzzles faced by the researcher. This phenomenon is understood, firstly, as a consequence of the expansion of the sociological analysis frameworks on subjects related to health policy; health risks analysis; social representations of health, body and medicine; global health; and epistemology and history of medical knowledge, among others; secondly, by the growing presence of social scientists in interdisciplinary investigations.
The identification of borders and their possible spaces of interaction require articulations that allow the recognition of differences within a framework of legitimacy, dignity and equality, replacing subalternization, inferiorization and the exclusionary power standards imposed by the fields of Sociology and Health
This session proposal intends to analyze the challenges and potentialities of the Sociology of Health, from questions of the field of Sociology placed in the field of Health and vice versa, at national and international level, and to reflect on the scope of new approaches capable of dealing with asymmetrical relations in the context of contemporary national and global challenges.