SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Blood Transfusion, Socialized Medicine, High Tech
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Some groups were more likely to die of the plague than others were. One cannot help being struck by the superstition and ignorance surrounding the treatment of the ill in medieval times. Life expectancy: average age at death of the members of a population. Life expectancy, degenerative conditions (i. e. cancer and heart disease), has an opportunity to develop in a way that was not possible a century ago. Shortcomings of modern medicine: emphasize on high-tech cures rather than on preventive and environmental measures. Social causes of illness and death individual factors. Social causes of illness and death listed above is strongly associated with country of residence, class, race and gender. Biomedicine: western medicine, define disease objectively through presence of recognized, health restored through scientifically based medical treatment symptoms i. e. identifying bacteria and viruses and developing ways to combat them. Social causes of illness and death environmental factors. Not about the wealth of a country but the level of inequality.
