SOCI 2050 Lecture 9: Chapter 3/5/4
13 Nov 2017
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Local health network in ontario: recent developments in health care, new public management - business like model (wait times decrease, privatization, cost saving) Chapter 4: profession: occupation based on advanced knowledge with means of controlling occupation, neo-weberian / closure theory, professionalization = power. Social closure: what defines a profession is power and monopoly to maximize rewards: exclusion: power directed downward from more subordinate role to less subordinate, usurpation: upward power to improve subordinate role, professional dominance. Chapter 5: medical industrial complex, evolution of social organization of health care, from bedside medicine - hospital medicine (went there to die in the past, contract illnesses) Lab medicine (diagnostic testing: hospitals, publicly funded but privately operated (dual authority, total intuitions (aspects of person"s characteristics are limited aka depersonalized) Long term care and nursing homes: profit vs non profit facilities (vast majority are private/profit, home care vs nursing home, community health care, primary.
