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Soc341 Medical Sociology BSU Final Xu

Terms in this set (43)

Definition of medical sociology (pg 4-5)
Medical Sociology focuses on the social causes and consequences of health and illness
research/study scope of medical sociology (pg 4-5)
Medical sociology bring sociological perspectives, theories, and methods to the study of health, illness, medical practice, and policy. includes health and disease, health disparities, the social behavior of health care personnel and their patients, the social functions of health organizations and institutions, the social patterns of the utilization of health services, and social policies toward health.
Definition of health provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) (pg 10)
"A complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or injury."
Three stages of the development of modern medicine (the germ theory of disease and the search for "magic bullets," return to the "whole person," and the reemergence of infectious diseases), especially the germ theory of disease (pg 14-17)
-germ theory of disease and the search for magic bullets
-return to the whole person
-the reemergence of infectious diseases
Germ theory of disease and the search for magic bullets (pg 14)
-medicine's thinking is dominated by medications as magic bullets to kill diseases.
-antibiotics and vaccinations.
-patient seen as disease to be cured not a whole person.
-every disease has pathogenic cause
-Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and others uncovered typhoid, tetanus, and diphtheria immunizations and vaccines
-Alexander Fleming and Penicillin (first antibiotic)
return to the whole person (pg 14-16)
-Diseases got replaces by chronic illnesses as the leading cause of death.
-Treating the whole person
-Chronic illnesses usually have more than one factor involved in their presence.
-Looks at social factors for Preventing/Coping
The reemergence of Infectious diseases (pg 16-23)
-natural causes and bioterrorism
-globalization, urbanization, global warming
-antibiotic resistance, diseases transferred by insects and resistance to pesticides, human interference
-Zika, Ebola, West Nile Virus, STDs, Bioterrorism, Bioethics(Nazi Doctors & Tuskegee Syphilis Study)
Definition of epidemiology (pg 32)
the science of epidemics, but is not only including epidemics. Studies everything from epidemics to chronic illnesses to drug and alcohol addiction.
Research/Scope of Epidemiology (pg 32)
focuses not on the individual but large groups. Like a detective looking for clues to find the source of the illness and prevent it from happening again.
Definition of case (pg 32)
an episode of a disorder, illness, or injury involving a person
definition of Incidence (pg 33)
number of new cases of a specific health disorder occurring within a population during a stated period of time. (rate at which they appear)
definition of prevalence (pg 33)
Total number of cases that exist at any given time (rate all cases exist)
definition of crude rate (pg 33)
the number of persons (cases) who have the characteristics being measured during a specific unit of time (birth rates, mortality rates)
The leading cause of death in the United States (pg 38)
Heart disease
The effects of social class, education, and income on health
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