Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach, 7/e
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Chapter 19: Medicine and Health
Sociology: A Down-to-Earth
Approach 7/e
James M. Henslin
Chapter Nineteen: Medicine and Health
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Chapter 19: Medicine and Health
Sociology and the Study of
Medicine and Health
Role of Sociology in the Study
Study Influence of Self-Regulation,
Bureaucracy, and Profit Motive
Study How Illness is More than Biology
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Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
Role of Culture in Defining Health
and Illness
The Components of Health
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The Functionalist Perspective
The Sick Role
Elements of the Sick Role
Ambiguity of the Sick Role
Gatekeepers to the Sick Role
Gender Differences in the Sick Role
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The Conflict Perspective
Effects of Global Stratification on
Health Care
Establishing a Monopoly on U.S.
Health Care
The Professionalism of Medicine
The Monopoly of Medicine
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Historical Patterns of Health
Physical Health
Leading Causes of Death
Were Americans Healthier in Past?
Mental Health
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Issues in Health Care
Medical Care: Right or Commodity?
Social Inequality
Malpractice Suits and Defensive Medicine
Medical Incompetence
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Issues in Health Care
Depersonalization: The Medical
Cash Machine
Conflict of Interest
Medical Fraud
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Issues in Health Care
Sexism in Medicine
The Medicalization of Society
Medically Assisted Suicide
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Curbing Costs:
Issues in Health Insurance
HMOs—Health Maintenance Organizations
Diagnosis Related Groups
National Health Insurance
Rationing Medical Care
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Threats to Health
HIV/AIDS
Origin of AIDS
Transmission of AIDS
Gender, Race-Ethnicity, and AIDS
Stigma of AIDS
Is there a Cure?
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Threats to Health
Obesity
Drugs
Alcohol
Nicotine
Disabling Environments
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Threats to Health
Misguided, Foolish, and Callous
Experiments
Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
Cold War Experiments
Playing God
Globalization of Disease
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The Search for Alternatives
Treatment or Prevention?
Alternative Medicine
Health Care in Global Perspective
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The Future of Medicine
In U.S.—Continued Fee-For-Service
Cigarette Smoking Decrease
Increased Knowledge of Genes
Increased Technology
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