Upload
harper-mclaughlin
View
39
Download
2
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
Medical Sociology. Functionalism: Social Stability. Members must be healthy to perform roles Medicine as a system to control health and illness in society Creates norms and controls behavior Sick Role Gatekeepers Physicians and Parents. Symbolic Interaction: Meanings. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Citation preview
Medical Sociology
Functionalism: Social Stability Members must be healthy to perform
roles• Medicine as a system to control health and
illness in society• Creates norms and controls behavior
• Sick Role• Gatekeepers• Physicians and Parents
Symbolic Interaction: Meanings• Cultural Definitions of Health–Change over time–Depend on social environment
• Labeling and Social Stigma
• Patient-Physician Interaction
Conflict Perspective: Social Inequality• Medicine as a Scarce Social Resource• Stratification or Two Tiered System
– Life expectancy rates– Infant mortality rates
Fact Book/Life Expectancy/Infant Mortality
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2010/a101013.html http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db09.htm
Conflict PerspectiveGlobal Stratification
Most Industrialized Countries
• Lifestyle Diseases
Least Industrialized Countries
•Poor Infrastructure Malaria, malnutrition, parasites, dehydration
United States: Social Issues• Health Care Costs: 17.6% of GDP – Technology– Malpractice – Uninsured (young adults 30%)– Aging population
http://nchc.org/issue-areas/insurance
• Depersonalization of Medicine• Patients as objects• Insurance Paperwork• Physician Shortage
Medicalization of Society -Turning certain behaviors into a medical condition
Medicalization of Deviance (Henslin)
-Gives medical professionals power and authority -Ignores cultural and societal stressors -Places responsibility and cause on the individual
Pill Popping Culture Pharmaceutical Industryhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh99CN5tLrc
Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM)http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx
Cosmetic Procedures Medical MarijuanaErectile Dysfunction, Female Sexual Dysfunction Gender and Identity DisorderAddictionsIntermittent Explosive Disorder*Attention Deficit Disorder Parental Attention Deficit*Anxiety Disorder Conduct DisorderSexual DeviantsImpulse Control DisorderRelational Disorder*Oppositional Defiant Disorder, etc.
Threats to Health• Obesity Epidemic
• 31% of adults obese–California 23.2%–300,000 related deaths annually– http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html
• Practice Using the Sociological Perspective
Healthy Lifestyle• People reporting 6-7 of practices have better health
and live longer than people who practice fewer than four. (Alameda County Study)
• 1. 7-8 hours of sleep per night• 2. Eating breakfast everyday• 3. Seldom if ever eating snacks• 4. Controlling one’s weight• 5. Exercising• 6. Limiting alcohol consumption• 7. Never having smoked cigarettes
And: F _ _ _ _ D _