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Medical Sociology

Medical Sociology. Functionalism: Social Stability. Members must be healthy to perform roles Medicine as a system to control health and illness in society Creates norms and controls behavior Sick Role Gatekeepers Physicians and Parents. Symbolic Interaction: Meanings.

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Medical Sociology

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  1. Medical Sociology

  2. Functionalism: Social Stability Members must be healthy to perform roles • Medicine as a system to control health and illness in society • Creates norms and controls behavior • Sick Role • Gatekeepers • Physicians and Parents

  3. Symbolic Interaction: Meanings • Cultural Definitions of Health • Change over time • Depend on social environment • Labeling and Social Stigma • Patient-Physician Interaction

  4. Conflict Perspective: Social Inequality • Medicine as a Scarce Social Resource • Stratification or Two Tiered System • Life expectancy rates • Infant mortality rates Fact Book/Life Expectancy/Infant Mortality https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2010/a101013.html http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db09.htm

  5. Conflict Perspective Global Stratification Most Industrialized Countries • Lifestyle Diseases Least Industrialized Countries • Poor Infrastructure Malaria, malnutrition, parasites, dehydration

  6. United States: Social Issues • Health Care Costs: 17.6% of GDP • Technology • Malpractice • Uninsured (young adults 30%) • Aging population http://nchc.org/issue-areas/insurance • Depersonalization of Medicine • Patients as objects • Insurance Paperwork • Physician Shortage

  7. Medicalization of Society -Turning certain behaviors into a medical condition Medicalization of Deviance(Henslin) -Gives medical professionals power and authority -Ignores cultural and societal stressors -Places responsibility and cause on the individual Pill Popping Culture Pharmaceutical Industry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh99CN5tLrc

  8. Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM)http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx Cosmetic Procedures Medical Marijuana Erectile Dysfunction, Female Sexual Dysfunction Gender and Identity Disorder Addictions Intermittent Explosive Disorder* Attention Deficit Disorder Parental Attention Deficit* Anxiety Disorder Conduct Disorder Sexual Deviants Impulse Control Disorder Relational Disorder* Oppositional Defiant Disorder, etc.

  9. Threats to Health • Obesity Epidemic • 31% of adults obese • California 23.2% • 300,000 related deaths annually • http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html • Practice Using the Sociological Perspective

  10. Healthy Lifestyle • People reporting 6-7 of practices have better health and live longer than people who practice fewer than four. (Alameda County Study) • 1. 7-8 hours of sleep per night • 2. Eating breakfast everyday • 3. Seldom if ever eating snacks • 4. Controlling one’s weight • 5. Exercising • 6. Limiting alcohol consumption • 7. Never having smoked cigarettes And: F _ _ _ _ D _

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