HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Socialized Medicine

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1AA3
• Professor: Geraldine Voros

Document Summary

New model/paradigm includes a 6th institution (health care socialized medicine: helps stabilize society and lend social order, parson"s view (functional model) He came up with a few ideas that were later built upon. Assumed that for the model to be functional all people had to be functional. The ill needed to be taken care of, and that the ill had the right to exempt themselves for the responsibility of their illness (they are not at fault for being ill) They have a right to exemption from normal responsibilities when one is sick(i. e. going to work or school ex. You have a duty to try and get well as soon as possible (it is your obligation to get well) You have to become proactive in terms of your health and be a well-informed citizen: medico-centric. There is an institution of medicine (a biomedical model)