Human relations in social organizations

It is a work approved from Ph. D. degrees in Sociology of Banaras Hindu University in 1976. The original title of the thesis was "Doctor-Patient relationship in hospital situation". The thesis has been abridged for publication incorporating the basic theme of social relations in hospital organization.

The hospital organization is one of the most dramatic situation of human relationship. The vulnerable position of the patients and expertise of the medical doctors, in given hospital organizational set up, make it very significant subject of study in medical sociology and social administration. The present work emphasises the organizational aspect of the hospital and empirically describes the human relationships with its core as doctor-patient relation ship.

The book is divided into seven Chapters. Chapter one out lines the statement of the problem and the design of the research. Chapter two deals with social background of the respondents. Chapter three to chapter six embody the empirical findings and analyse respectively the perception of medical norms, values and health conditions (chapter 3), the inter action and complementarity of expectation of the interacting units in the hospital (chapter 4), indirect factors in doctor patient relationship (chapter 5), and the organizational context of doctor-patient relationship (chapter 6). At the end some generalizations and typology of doctors and patients have been formulated (chapter 7).