SOC 506 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sociological Perspectives, Social Constructionism, Structural Functionalism
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The sociology of health, illness & health care in canada: a critical, contrasting the medical model approach with sociological perspectives. Coming from multiple dimensions: anthropology, history, geography, sociology. Assumptions of the medical model: mind-body dualism the mind is separate from the body. Body is influenced by the outside forces. 2: ability to treat the body without engaging the mind. Implications of mind-body dualism: the words of the patient are less important than doctor"s ability to detect signs of disease in the body: doctrine of specific etiology for every disease or illness, there is a specific cause. Etiology: diagnostic instruments for discovering illness (cause>effect,>treatment) medicine: biological reductionism. Disease is located in the body: what the patient reports is less important than what the body reveals , assumes that pharmaceuticals can cure illness (magic bullet approach, doctors should have medical authority to control all aspects of.
