Physician between Social Role and Professional Behaviour: A Social Analytical Study

Abstract

The medicine in its wide meaning concerning with health problems and disease. There is a noticed concern by medical centers especially in the developed countries, due to the social changes and technology progress in every side of life which affected the medicine and Physicians in its relation to the diseases and social values. The importance of this research that is studying a keen field in medicine and medical sociology which is the roles conflicting for physicians, between their social role and professional behaviour. Some people believe that physicians are a mistakable. The research also shows that the types of disease nowadays are not the same, which appeared 50 years ago, and physicians are facing a big challenge, due to the impact of the cultural development, as far as diseases and social life are concerned.This research conatins five chapters, the first one is the importance and scope of research, the second chapter is regarding the social role in term of sociology and social psychology mean. Chapter three explains the medico-social perspective of health and disease. The fourth chapter studies the relation between physician and patients. Finally, chapter five concentrates on the physicians roles conflict.