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Chapter 19 | Health and Medicine
17. What a.
b. c. d.
group created the Millennium Development Goals? UNICEF
The Kaiser Family Foundation
Doctors Without Borders
The World Health Organization
19.5 Theoretical Perspectives on Health and Medicine
18. Which of the following is not part of the rights and responsibilities of a sick person under the functionalist perspective?
a. The sick person is not responsible for his condition.
b. The sick person must try to get better.
c. The sick person can take as long as she wants to get better.
d. The sick person is exempt from the normal duties of society.
19. The class, race, and gender inequalities in our healthcare system support the _____________ perspective.
a. conflict
b. interactionist
c. functionalist
d. all of the above
20. The removal of homosexuality from the DSM is an example of ____________.
a. medicalization
b. deviance
c. interactionist theory
d. demedicalization
Short Answer
19.1 The Social Construction of Health
1. Pick a common illness and describe which parts of it are medically constructed, and which parts are socially constructed.
2. What diseases are the most stigmatized? Which are the least? Is this different in different cultures or social classes? 19.2 Global Health
3. If social epidemiologists studied the United States in the colonial period, what differences would they find between now and then?
4. What do you think are some of the contributing factors to obesity-related diseases in the United States?
19.3 Health in the United States
5. What factors contribute to the disparities in health among racial, ethnic, and gender groups in the United States? 6. Do you know anyone with a mental disorder? How does it affect his or her life?
19.4 Comparative Health and Medicine
7. What do you think are the best and worst parts of the PPACA? Why?
8. Compare and contrast the healthcare system of the United States with the WHO’s Millennium Development Goals.
19.5 Theoretical Perspectives on Health and Medicine
9. Which theoretical perspective do you think best explains the sociology of health? Why? 10. What examples of medicalization and demedicalization can you think of?
Further Research
19.1 The Social Construction of Health
Spend some time on the two web sites below. How do they present differing views of the vaccination controversy? Freedom of Choice is Not Free: Vaccination News: http://openstaxcollege.org/l/vaccination_news
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