SOC 153 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Alternative Medicine, Depersonalization, Defensive Medicine

• School: Miami University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 153
• Professor: Steven Nelson

Document Summary

Shaman: healing specialists of tribes who attempts to control spirits thought to cause disease or injury. Health: human condition measured by physical, mental, social and spiritual. Life expectancy rates low in less industrialized countries. These people are more likely to ge diseases such as; malaria, internal parasites, diarrhea, malnutrition. Professionalization of medicine: development of medicine into a speciality that requires physicians to: Present themselves as doing a service to society. Monopoly on medicine: american medical association, the group that gained control over u. s. medicine, managed to laws passed that limited medical licenses to graduates of schools they controlled. Epidemiology: study of patterns of disease and disability in a population. It is believed that americans are were healthier in the past because nowadays the air and water is polluted. If it"s a right all citizens should have medical care. If it"s a commodity we can choose whether or not we want it.