Medical Sociology Quiz 1

Deviance

In the case of the sick role, illness is seen as _______, and its undesirable nature reinforces the motivation to be healthy

improvements in diet, housing, and public sanitation

decline in deaths from infectious diseases in the second half of the nineteenth century was mainly due to:

it recognizes the role that social factors play in determining or influencing health

medical sociology is an important area of study because:

true

social determinates of health refer to the social, environmental, economic, historical, and political forces that influence population health

diseases are caused by a biological agent

the germ theory of disease is perspective which asserts:

preventing disease

the medicine of social spaces is concerned with:

overt and covert

two categories of bioterrorism

1. most government funding is awarded to research with practical application 2. medical sociology itself is converging with general sociology

what trend(s) reduced tensions between sociologist in medicine and sociologists of medicine

1. pressure to produce work that could be applied to medical practice and healthy policy 2. lack of attention on the role of medicine and health from classical theorists

which circumstance(s) particularly affected the development of medical sociology in its early stages

"whole person" care

with the transition to a greater prevalence of chronic diseases, physicians have increasingly had to take which approach to medical care?