医学社会学（medicalsociology）是社会学的分支学科，在社会学的发展史中属于新近发展起来的子学科。它是社会学科的研究领域和对象不断深化和扩张的结果（Kurtz＆Chalfant，1991），也与医学在社会中的地位不断提高以及人们对社会现象与医学的联系的日益关注密切相关。在很大 Medical sociology is a branch of sociology and belongs to a newly developed sub-discipline in the history of sociology. It is the result of the continuous deepening and expansion of the research fields and objects of the social sciences (Kurtz & Chalfant, 1991). It is also closely related to the increasing status of medicine in society and the growing concern for the connection between social phenomena and medicine. In great