Medicine and Sociology

Question 1

What is Health behaviour?

Answer 1

Behaviour aimed at avoiding a disease

Question 2

What is Illness behaviour?

Answer 2

Behaviour aimed at finding a remedy

Question 3

What is Sick-Role behaviour?

Answer 3

Behaviour aimed at getting a better role

Question 4

Biomedical model of health and illness?

Answer 4

Mind and body are treated separately with illness from disease and cure from technology

Question 5

Social model of health and illness?

Answer 5

Health and illness influenced and shaped by wider socio-economic context

Question 6

Aetiology of capacity model(3)?

Answer 6

Normality, Strain, Exhaustion

Question 7

Aetiology of deviancy model(3)?

Answer 7

Normality, motivational problems, crisis

Question 8

Define the medicalisation hypothesis

Answer 8

Professionals tend to see problems in terms of their own profession. Doctors therefore look at problems medically. Some conditions that seem medical can be a product of social forces e.g. mental illness can be seen medically when the route of the problem may be socially related.

Question 9

What is Iatrogenesis?

Answer 9

Side effects of medical intervention (Can include social and social intervention)