SOC239H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Health Promotion, Child Poverty, Social Equality
Document Summary
Sociology in med and soc of med: soc in med: quesions asked by doctors to help them is this med efecive, soc of med: quesions for the society who is more likely to catch certain disease. Power relaion: who is more likely to get sick, poor are more likely than rich. Criical approach: power structures, adults vs children, hetro vs homo. Key inding: illness have cultural meaning, diseases are sigmaized. Making diseases harder to cure: when paient sigmaizes self-treatment becomes harder. Someone was sick, and even ater cure sill believe they are sick. Gender: cultural construcion, having a child is an ideal role for women. Child birth causes impact: birth is also given medical role. Medicalizaion of human condiion: pregnancy medically deined, alcoholism deined as a medical condiion. Social sources of disease and death: disease: biological problem, illness: refers to social experience and consequences of having a disease.
