SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Sick Role, Preventive Healthcare, Methylphenidate
22 Feb 2016
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Who: health is state of complete physical, mental and social well being. Medicine: institutionalized system for scientific diagnosis, treatment and prevention of illness. Male centered medical research ignore diseases that affect females. Discrimination against women working in healthcare system. Meaning that social actors give their illness or disease affects self-concept. Aids: stigma devalues a person"s social identity. Adhd discovery coincided with development of ritalin. Demedicalization: example homosexuality: created a new patient population, trying to demedicalize childbirth and menopause. David morris: our understanding of disease creates convergences between biology and culture. Ex: biology of disease is the same but treatment is different in different cultures. Ex: belief in perfect body has healthy: contradicted by inevitability of death. Sex: rate of illness are highest among old (65+) and young, canada is aging society: baby boomers = healthcare cost rise, longer life for females.
