SOCL 2001 : Final Review Guide
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Obvious when examining the patient or detected in laboratory tests. Health: complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. Pathological illness: the body is clearly diseased or malfunctioning in some way . Statistical illness: person"s health varies from the norm high blood pressure: talcott parsons people are classified as ill not on the basis of their physical iron-deficiency anemia. Functional explanation of illness: sick role: set of expectations, privileges, and obligations related to their condition, but on the basis of how they are functioning in society illness, 1. Expected to reduce their performance in other roles: 2. Sick people are expected to try to get better: 3. Conflict perspective of illness: health care system is an elite system intent on maintaining power, orphan drugs: drugs that are valuable in the treatment of rare diseases but not profitable to the manufacturer. Epidemiologists: people who study the social distribution of disease and illness.
