medical sociology

Question 1

What is medical sociology?

Answer 1

A subdiscipline of sociology that focuses on the social dimensions of health and illness.

Question 2

What does medical sociology focus on?

Answer 2

Interested on the social factors that influence both disease and illness.

Question 3

Medical Model

Answer 3

• focus on organic pathology of patients (blood work, biopsy, account of symptoms and locating in the body)
• framework is important but has limitations

Question 4

sociological model

Answer 4

• expands focus beyond the body
• examines the interaction between the body and the external world (not limited to what is within the body)
• Bodies inhabit social worlds that affect
  disease causation, prevention, and the
  experience of illness.
  -Complements the clinical, medical model which alone cannot address health disparities that are socially produced.

Question 5

What are some key areas of study?

Answer 5

health inequalities. experience of illness, social relationships, US health care, medical profession, organization of medicine