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• The Civis and the In-migrants: Spatial Patterns of Industrial Modernization in Debrecen 1870

  186-241

  Janos Mazsu

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  72

  Scholars engaged in research into the history of Debrecen have long been eager to get an
  answer – beyond their specific research inquiries – to the question whether the development of
  the city had had unique features and if they had what would hallmark the unique character of
  development? Was there or is there a kind of “Debrecenness”?
  My study examines – with the help of a GIS relational database (DTTTA1870) – what
  peculiarities can be grasped in the transformation of the traditional spatial and social structure
  of Debrecen enforced by the political change and industrial modernization processes two
  decades after the change of feudal regime (1848/49).
  The analysis focuses on whether the alteration process of the factors determining the social
  status (residential segregation, neighborhood, spatial segregation and coexistence, other spatial
  and social hierarchical characteristics) in the cases of the “deep-rooted Debrecen residents”
  (cívis) and of the settlers showed specific types described in the literature or showed specific
  features.

• Incubating radicalism in Hungary – the case of Sopron and Ózd

  79-102.

  Domonkos Sik

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  46

  The paper analyses young people’s interpretation of the past, evaluation of the present and po-litical behaviour patterns based on semi-structured interviews (n=60) conducted in two contra-sting constellations of modernization, Sopron and Ózd. First the perception of the most pressing social and political problems, second the potential of political and civic actions are compared. Finally an attempt is made to outline a ‚hopeless’ and an ‚indifferent’ idealtype of political cultu-re. Together they create the opportunity for both the birth of antidemocratic tendencies and the space in which they can evolve. In this sense they provide the preconditions for ‚mainstreaming the extreme’ that is the incubation of radicalism in Hungary.

• Deficiencies in the doctor-sick people/patient relationship. Chances and possibilities at the intersection of bioethical and sociology of health investigations

  Erzsébet Rózsa

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  82

  This paper brings into focus the theme of doctor-sick people/patient relationship by means of boethical principles interpreted in sociocultural perspective. The author, based on German literature, holds that the transformation of docor-sick people relationship [Arzt-Kranke-Verhältnis] into doctor-patient relationship [Arzt-Patient-Verhältnis] is one of the conditions and elements
  of modern medicine. Its realization requires disseminate and making general the patient’s principle of autonomy, his right to self determination and his right to informed consent in Hungarian patient care. This civilization challenge – namely the adjustment of the quality of all elements of medicine (including attitudes) to the criteria and standards of modern medicine – is the interest
  of all concerned in health care. In this setting interdisciplinary work is being offered by bioethics, for example to the sociology of health.

• Themes of medical profession and professional socialization in medical sociology textbooks

  79-97

  Éva Susánszky

  Zsuzsa Szántó

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  65

  Introduction: The present study examines the information on the medical profession and how the changes occurring in the medical practice, the social role and the evaluation of the physician are reflected in the English and Hungarian language medical sociology textbooks used in Hungary. Method: We analyzed chapters of Hungarian language medical sociology textbooks of the
  last 25 years that discuss medical profession and student choices, and textbooks used in English language courses of Semmelweis University. Results: The corpus of the Hungarian textbooks (history of medical profession, medical role models, models of doctor-patient relationships, medical socialization) stayed relatively unchanged. While preserving the myth of the medical profession, there are criticisms towards the role and relationship models. The theme of the medical education gradually disappears from the
  English language textbooks. The social positions of the medical profession and health care are discussed in a broader context, focusing on the health care system and health care provision, incorporating the allied professions, and taking aspects of patients/consumers into greater consideration. Summary: Both textbook types reflect on the changes in the social position of the medical profession. However, the English literature approaches the modernization processes from the angles of the health care system and health care provision, resulting in the diminishing importance of the topic of medical profession while the Hungarian literature focuses on the profession and professional education of physicians.