Chapter 19: Medicine and Health
Sociology: A Down-to-Earth
Approach 7/e
James M. Henslin
Chapter Nineteen: Medicine and Health
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Chapter 19: Medicine and Health
Sociology and the Study of
Medicine and Health
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Role of Sociology in the Study
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Study Influence of Self-Regulation,
Bureaucracy, and Profit Motive
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Study How Illness is More than Biology
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Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
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Role of Culture in Defining Health
and Illness
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The Components of Health
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The Functionalist Perspective
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The Sick Role
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Elements of the Sick Role
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Ambiguity of the Sick Role
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Gatekeepers to the Sick Role
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Gender Differences in the Sick Role
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The Conflict Perspective
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Effects of Global Stratification on
Health Care
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Establishing a Monopoly on U.S.
Health Care
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The Professionalism of Medicine
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The Monopoly of Medicine
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Historical Patterns of Health
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Physical Health
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Leading Causes of Death
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Were Americans Healthier in Past?
Mental Health
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Issues in Health Care
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Medical Care: Right or Commodity?
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Social Inequality
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Malpractice Suits and Defensive Medicine
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Medical Incompetence
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Issues in Health Care
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Depersonalization: The Medical
Cash Machine
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Conflict of Interest
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Medical Fraud
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Issues in Health Care
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Sexism in Medicine
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The Medicalization of Society
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Medically Assisted Suicide
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Curbing Costs:
Issues in Health Insurance
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HMOs—Health Maintenance Organizations
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Diagnosis Related Groups
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National Health Insurance
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Rationing Medical Care
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Threats to Health
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HIV/AIDS
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Origin of AIDS
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Transmission of AIDS
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Gender, Race-Ethnicity, and AIDS
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Stigma of AIDS
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Is there a Cure?
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Threats to Health
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Obesity
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Drugs
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Alcohol
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Nicotine
Disabling Environments
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Threats to Health
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Misguided, Foolish, and Callous
Experiments
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Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
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Cold War Experiments
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Playing God
Globalization of Disease
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The Search for Alternatives
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Treatment or Prevention?
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Alternative Medicine
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Health Care in Global Perspective
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Chapter 19: Medicine and Health
The Future of Medicine
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In U.S.—Continued Fee-For-Service
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Cigarette Smoking Decrease
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Increased Knowledge of Genes
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Increased Technology
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