SOCY 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13.2: Health Equity, Profit Motive, Medicalization
18 Jan 2017
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Socy100 textbook notes chapter 13. 2- the body, medicine, health, and health care. Medical sociology: concerned with the social consequences and causes involved in health and illness, social factors are heavily involved in health care delivery, addresses a lot of specific issues. Racial and ethnic differences in health care. Basic health inequality causes by social class, gender, and race/ethnicity. Relationships between health care providers and patients. Power, autonomy, high status, and wealth have declined relative to the exalted position they once held. Physicians acquired too much power half a century ago to be able to sustain it at that level for a prolonged time period. Increasing public questioning of the medical profession (gave it the power in the first place) Growing awareness of the extraordinary wealth and power physicians have. Revelation of medical malpractice: proved physicians do not always adhere to their code of ethics. Government gained more power over the medical profession through things like medicare and medicaid.
