SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sick Role, Medical Sociology
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Medicine: so(cid:272)iety"s sta(cid:374)dard (cid:449)ays of deali(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith ill(cid:374)ess a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)jury will become apparent: a profession, a bureaucracy ad a publically funded institution in canada. Health industrial complex: universally accessible medicare system: comprises the pharmaceutical industries, private health insurance companies, privately operated home-care industries and many other for profit industries that extend across the health and medicine sector of our economy. Sociologists study how this important and extensive sector is influences by ideas of self- regulation, the bureaucratic structure, and public policy in canada. Also study how illness and health are much more than biological matters how they are intimately related to cultural beliefs, lifestyles and social class. Symbolic interactionists stress, an important concern of sociologists is not to define (cid:449)hat (cid:862)true(cid:863) health or (cid:862)true(cid:863) ill(cid:374)ess is, instead it is to analyze the effects of people"s ideas of health and the illness on their lives. What is health: health: physical, mental and social maybe spiritual as well.
