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Research on the Actual Condition or Doctor-Patient Relationship in Contemporary America

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13610190
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research InstitutionTOHOKU UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

TAKAGI Kazuyoshi  TOHOKU Univ. Graduate School of Letters, Professor, 大学院・文学研究科, 教授 (00085953)

Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2002
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2002)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
KeywordsDoctor-Patient Relationship / Revolution of Medical Thoughts / Informed Consent / Right of Self-determination / Bioethics / America / アメリカ
Research Abstract

The medical thoughts, has continued since ancient Greece, has received the great revolutionary change at the 70's of American society. Peorle questioned the arbitrary power of doctors and insisted the right of self-determination of patients, as well as repudiate doctors treat oatients as the objects of manipulation. Then gradually, the shared decision making of doctors and patients was institutionalized, based on the informed consent.
The aims of this study are to analyze the actual conditions of doctor-patient relationship in contemporary United States, and to make clear the real situation of revolution of medical thoughts' in America. For that sake I tried to do the participant observation and some interview with the medical people and patients at the New York Children's Hospital and the Medical Center as well as the Medical School of Columbia University.
As the results of this field research, I can make clear the following points.
(1) Many professions other than doctors, bioethicists, … More medical sociologists, medical social workers, psychologists, take part in at the hospitals of the United States.
(2)Patients and members of their family can look freely at teir chant (Karte).
(3)Nurses, not doctors, take the responsibility to manage the words.
(4)The informed consent is institutionalized firmly.
(5)People including patients agree that medical professins must get the informed consent from all patient, even though they are children, mental patients. Therefore many hospitals provide a lots of means for even chidren and mental patients to be able to understand their own conditions of deseases, for example, videos, pictures, panels, so on.
(6)There appeared a lots or disputes about problems presented by the advanced medical technologies, then developed the interdisciplinary research of philosophy, theology, jurisprudence, sociology, and medical sciences.
(7)Among them, medical sociology play the very important roles to criticize the individualistic bias and the absolutization of the right of self-determination of bioethics. On the basis of these results, I would advance to make clear the change of doctors-patients relationship concretely by the field research.
As regard to the conditions of Japan not receiving baptism of medical thoughts revolution, not institutionalized the informed consent, I think we can get the great fruits if we throw the light on American theoretical efforts during the development of medical thoughts revolution. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 2002 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (16 results)

All Other

All Publications (16 results)

  • [Publications] 高城 和義: "機能主義-パーソンズとウェーバー"社会学史研究. 23号. 39-48 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 高城 和義: "二一世紀におけるアメリカン・デモクラシーをめぐる諸問題"社会学研究. 70号. 51-73 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 高城 和義: "パーソンズのマルクス・ウェーバー理解"社会学年報. 31号. 5-25 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 高城 和義: "社会学のすすめ-医療社会学を中心として"原研二他編『人文社会科学の新世紀』東北大出版会. 175-181 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 高城 和義: "パーソンズ 医療社会学の構想"岩波書店. 251 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 高城 和義: "パーソンズとウェーバー"岩波書店. 236 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] TAKAGI, Kazuyoshi: "Functionalism: Parsons and Weber"Studies on the History of Sociology. 23. 39-48 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] TAKAGI, Kazuyoshi: "Some Reflections on the 'American Democracy' of the 21 Century"The Study of Sociology. 70. 51-73 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] TAKAGI, Kazuyoshi: "Parsons' Understanding on Marx and Weber"The Annual Reports of The Tohoku Sociological Society. 31. 5-25

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] TAKAGI, Kazuyoshi: "Introduction to Sociology: An Example of Medical Sociology"Hara, k. et al ed., The New Century of Humanities and Social Sciences. 175-181 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] TAKAGI, Kazuyoshi: "Parsons : conception of Medical Sociology"Iwanami-syoten. 251 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] TAKAGI, Kazuyoshi: "Parsons and Weber"Iwanami-syoten. 236 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 高城和義: "二一世紀におけるアメリカン・デモクラシーをめぐる諸問題"社会学研究. 70号. 51-73 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 高城和義: "パーソンズのマルクス・ウェーバー理解"社会学年報. 31号. 5-25 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 高城和義: "パーソンズ 医療社会学の構想"岩波書店. 251 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 高城 和義: "パーソンズ 医療社会学の構想"岩波書店. 251 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report

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