SOC-S 101 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Cardiovascular Disease, Life Expectancy, Genetics
SOC-S 101
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
SOC Notes 8/24/17
Epidemiologist research study the causes (what makes them sick)
Health services research study the consequences (happens to them in the service
system)
Is there a gender gap in coronary heart disease?
Yes, but not a big gap as medicine has argued. There is something about women
biology. The differences in estrogen.
Hormone transfer theory
If the theory is false then risks of breast cancer
Going to the HMO probability diagnosed with coronary heart disease is lower
Most heart disease treatments have been more tested on men than women.
Clinical researchers prefer to test on men because women are more biologically
complex. Up to 1980s research was only done on men
Women have more breast tissue in which the gamma camera gets retracted and
does not work as well.
Gender is a fundamental cause
The Yentyl Syndrome
Healy
• If the symptoms are really dominating then the effects of social factors do
not matter
• When it is medically obvious then social fators do’t atter
• When there is an uncertainty non-medically (social) factors turn out to
make a difference
Breast aer is soially ostruted as the ajor health prole for oe
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Universals is something that is true in all the time in all places.
• Ill health in some form exists in all times and places. Getting the clues of the
illness people are going to have while understanding their history.
• All hua’s groups deide a set of eliefs ad pereptios for defining
healthy ad ot healthy.
• All human groups develop methods and allocate social roles for treating ill-
health
Where and when was plastic surgery invented?
• 100 of years ago in ancient India
• The nature of warfare
• The helmets were leather so people would get their noses ripped off
• Reconstructing the structures of noses
Ocea charged with taking care of the workforce and making sure of the safety
• China does not have a government that there are more industrial accidents
• Perfected microsurgery due to these causes
Disease (Medicine/science)
• Biologically perimeter if ill health
• Any state diagnosed by a confident professional
• Beig healthy is he you hae’t ee diagosed
• What dotors hae deided aout a perso’s health
• Doctors depend on two kinds of information which are signs and symptoms
• Signs are things that can be measured considered hard evidence. Examples
are high blood pressure, blood cell count, temperature (98.6). doctors
prefer this but do not have a choice in many cases.
• Symptoms is any information that comes from the reports of patients.
Examples are stomach pain, rating the pain, dizziness, headaches, fatigue,
hallucinations. These things have no hard measures when it comes to
symptoms. Doctors do not prefer this.
Illness (social psychological)
• Subjective state that people are in
• Person is ill when they do not feel well
• Nonheadearnce and noncomplicance (you do not do whenat the doctor
tells you to do)
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