SOC 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Melatonin, Medical Sociology, Waterborne Diseases
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Perspective: objective: medicine is a social science. Health and disease enmeshed within the web of social activity: the central premise of the historical perspective is that capitalism created totally new ways of life. Why were these approaches wrong: obsolete medical theory that held that diseases such as cholera, chlamydia, or the black. The two for where people got their care: responsible for providing health care: family, community, church -> guilds, unions, political parties -> government. Threat to private practice: what was faris and dunham"s explanation for the geographic distribution of schizophrenics in. Chicago: concentrated rates of schizophrenics & substance abusers in slums, falsely attributed to lack of integration/social isolation, actually due to social drift. Schizophrenia caused people to become poor and move them to poor areas: what are two other societal shifts that have had unintended impacts on health, globalization. This ended up increasing the outbreaks of cholera since cholera is actually in water and it is a waterborne disease.
