[SOC 340] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (31 pages long!)
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Believes bodily fluids need to be in balance in order for a person to be healthy: black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, blood. If they aren"t in balance, they need to be put back in balance to cure someone. Thorough, so why do they still occur: not done between every patient. Mind-body dualism: physical diseases are presumed to be located solely in the body. Physical reductionism: excludes social, psychological and behavioral dimension of the body. Specific etiology: each disease is caused by a specific potentially identifiable disease. Magic bullet to shoot and kill disease is wanted. Notion that physicians could repair one part in isolation from the rest. 25% of all college students infected with stds. Participants told that they will be receiving treatment for syphilis. Taken out of the draft, so they wouldn"t receive medical treatment that would affect the experiment. Nurse rivers- african american woman who treated participants: made participants feel more comfortable because she was of same race/ethnicity.
