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?