Chapter 13

Question 1

Policy Sociology

Answer 1

improve healthcare though research, data for government

Question 2

critical sociology

Answer 2

examine big phara companies, med schools, private healthcare system, anyone whos making money

Question 3

the sick role (talcott parsons) 4 expectations

Answer 3

expect from society;

1. excemption from normal social responsibilities
2. taken care of

societies expectations;

1. get well
2. seek technically competent help

Question 4

Medical Model of disabilties

Answer 4

frame work for interrpreting disability that is determined by doctors, specialists

Question 5

socail constructionist model on disabilites

Answer 5

the idea that any human social category is not a tottaly natural catergory, but important socail component

Question 6

substantive equality

Answer 6

building modifications that guarantee people w/ natural impairments equal accessibility

Question 7

formal equality

Answer 7

everyone faces/must adapt to the same sociolly driven architecture that gives adavantages to non-disabled people

Question 8

1. clinical iatrogenesis

Answer 8

marvin from madagascar (witch doctor) holes, diagnosis/cue causes more health problems that what was trying to be cured

Question 9

Iatrogenesis (3)

Answer 9

doctor generated epidemics that avert people from preventing/treating their illnesses, critque idustrial society for the ills of stress and pollution

Question 10

2. Social Iatrogenesis

Answer 10

occurs when political conditions that “render society unhealthy” are hidden or obscure
ex. lax regulating of workplace safety

Question 11

3. Cultural iatrogenesis

Answer 11

knowledge/abilities of the medical community are extolled, & patients are given no credit for their recovery

Question 12

Koos critque of the sick role

Answer 12

thought sick role was too uniform
what people did with their health was dependent on class
sick roles changes based on gender, class, race

Question 13

Emke’s proposed new expectations for the sick role

Answer 13

people responsible for own illnesses (smoking drinking)
the patient should tread lightly
the patient abuses system “unessicaly check ups)

Question 14

Course of a Disease (1) natural (2) social

Answer 14

(1) get ill, symptoms, get well
(2) social interactions person faces while in treatment
(2) how they are affected based on age, race, sex,

Question 15

Biomedicine

Answer 15

application/use of western scientific principles in the diagnosis treatment of illnesses/diseases (physical tests, medicine, therapies)

Question 16

Alternative (complementary) medicine

Answer 16

falls outside conventional biomedicine practices ex. yogs, acupunture, massage thearapy

Question 17

Medicalization

Answer 17

behaviours/conditions as medical problems
medical intervention = social control
reducing complex medical issues to biomedicine cases, wihtout examination of sociocultural/politicl factors
promotes commodification

Question 18

Economic Model on Disabilities (2 types)

Answer 18

how people w/disabilities are viewed

(1) favourable - they can preform meaningful labour
(2) unfavourable - they are a drain on the state

Question 19

Groces’s three areas of cultural view of disabilities

Answer 19

1. casuality as the reason for it
2. valued/devalued attributes
3. anticipated adult status