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Chapter 7: Health, illness and medicine
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AS Sociology Mind Map on Chapter 7: Health, illness and medicine, created by hannahvullo on 22/11/2013.
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Chapter 7: Health, illness and medicine
Health inequalities
Patterns of health (vary according to social group)
Ethnicity
Social Class
Gender
Geographical location
Explanations for variations
Artefact/statistical
Cultural
Structural
Mental Illness
Social Realism
causes of mental illness located in living experiences of oppressed groups:
Ethnic minorities
Women
Poor
Social constructionism
Foucault - shift to rational thinking
Labelling Theory
The Medical professions
To whose benefit do they operate?
Men - the feminist approach
Themselves - Weberian approach
The ruling class - Marxist approach
For the increasing dispersal of power - Foucault
Society as a whole - the functionalist approach
Health service inequalities
Services delivered unequally to different groups
Social class
Age
Gender
Ethnicity
Reasons for inequalities
Supply reasons
Differences in funding
Priority given in prestige services
Inefficiency of local NHS
Ability to pay for private healthcare
Demand reasons
Lack of knowledge of the system
Cultural barriers
Ignorance of warning signs of ill health
Physical Illness
What is meant by 'normal' bodies and 'normal' functionality?
Disability as abnormal - stigma model
Disability as different - impairment model
Normal bodies as social construction as well as physical entities
Illness and health socially constructed
Traditional Models
Based on mind/body explanations
Linked to complementary medicine
Lay definitions
Based on common sense
Vary by culture, age, gender, etc
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