SOC248 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sick Role, Social Fact, Auguste Comte
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Chapter 1 ways of thinking sociologically about health, illness, and. Medicine: statically correct to say the lower the income, the higher the rate of sickness, disability, and death (they mean on a country basis) Experiences/meanings of illness are constructed differently in various societies, socio-psychological conditions are linked to various diagnoses. Field of sociology examines and offers explanations for: medicalization, bio medicalization, the varying types of medical practice and medical discourses, the ideology and organization of medicine (structure, operations, occupations are different form other organizations such as finance) Biomedicalization: the intensification of medicalization over the past 20- 30 years through such technoscientific processes as computer programming, genomization, molecular biology, developments in transplant medicine, and new, expensive diagnostic technology. Medicalization: the te(cid:374)de(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455) fo(cid:396) (cid:373)o(cid:396)e a(cid:374)d (cid:373)o(cid:396)e of people"s li(cid:448)es to (cid:271)e encompassed by medical definitions of reality, for example, the drawing of birthing and dying into the purview of medical definitions of appropriate behavior and care.
