SOC 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Institutional Review Board, Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act, Syphilis
11 Feb 2017
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What is sociology: study of society and human behavior, understand behavior in broader social context. Social causes and consequences: understand, explain, predict, your social location matters. What do medical sociologists study: social causes and patterns of health and disease, social behavior of health care personnel and patients, social functions of health institutions, relationship of health care delivery systems to other social systems. Social determinants of health: class position (income, education, occupation, wealth, social practices and conditions (lifestyle, living and work situations, stressful circumstances, political (policies, government benefits, religious and cultural factors. Early sociologists did not pay much attention to health and medicine. World health organization (who): a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or injury. People tend to view health as the capacity to carry out their daily activities. Primitive humans relied on instincts, magic, supernatural. Hippocrates (ancient greece: rejected supernatural, rational though.
