The Inter-Disciplinary Conceptualization of Palliative Care as a Social Sub-Institution

Abstract

The health care is considered as a social institution since XX century. The main purpose of health care is in amelioration, rehabilitation and promotion of health. This social institution, according to its implementing functions, comprises four sub-institutions. The analysis of trends of institutionalization of the sub-institution «Palliative medical care» is presented in methodological plane of system of social structural functions (AGIL). From the perspective of dysfunctional practices of sub-institution of palliative medical care developing in Russia, a medicalization of palliative care is discussed.