The Importance of Sociology in Health

The idea that medicine is a social science dates back all the way to Hippocrates, but medical sociology as a legitimate institution of intellectual activity didn't become prominent until the 1940s. What makes sociological important is that there are these social factors that play into determining or influencing our health in some cases. Food and nutrition is something that's new coming into medical sociology, which medical sociology has not paid sufficient attention to. And then of course, last but not least social policy and the making of health policy or public health policy - such a timely topic.