SOSA 2503 Lecture 6: SOSA 2503 - Lecture 6 Review + Assignment 1

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 2503
• Professor: Fiona Martin

Document Summary

Italicized or highlighted readings: focus on the overlap between the reading and the lecture, ex. Long answer would be a paragraph or two: test includes video, film, reading, lecture material. Sociology of medicine: the dominant medico-centric approach to health and healthcare and its implications, studying health problems, medical settings, the organization of health care to better understand society as a whole or advance sociological theory. Sociology in medicine: the social patterning of health and illness and its implications, applying sociological theory to better understand health-related problems or create better healthy policy. People who do sociology of medicine tend to focus on studying medical knowledge of how the health care system operates; who make the medical field their focus. People who do sociology in medicine tend to make contribute to improvements by contributing to improve the health care system; improving health outcomes.