Sociological Perspectives on Health and Medicine
Functionalist's Perspective on health care?
People who are sick are temporarily exempt from normal obligations but must want to get well and seek competent care.
The first step to treating Mental Illness?
Convincing people that Mental Illness exists
What chapter are we presenting?
Chapter 14: Health, Healthcare, and Disability
The Conflict Perspectives on Health care?
Problems in health care are rooted in the capitalist system, exemplified by the medical-industrial complex.
Who discovered Mental Disorders?
The Hippocrates
Emil Kraepelin, pioneered it, he pioneered medicine as an empirical practice and came up with the “Hippocratic oath,” which all doctors must swear to before joining the profession.
The Symbolic Interactionist's Perspective?
People socially construct both "health" and "illness" and how both should be treated.
What is Deinstitutionalization?
Rapidly discharging patients from mental hospitals into the community.
This was the solution to something called "warehousing". Deinstitutionalization is viewed as a problem because people's rights were violated since they were committed without permission.
When did Mental Health begin?
550 million years ago
The Postmodernist Perspective?
Doctors gain power through observing patients to gather information, this appearing to speak wisely.
What happens to most mentally ill people?
They don't receive the help they need, due to people not believing mental illness is real and not having the funding to receive treatment or proper care.
What is Medicalization?
The process whereby non-medical problems become defined and treated as illnesses or disorders
Society and Researchers/Doctors reaction to Mental Illness?
Society frowned upon mentally ill people because of lack of knowledge. Researchers theorized mental illness into 3 categories:
- Possession of evil spirit or the devil
- Genetic illness, Brain damage, or an Imbalance
- Traumatic or Stressful experiences
Name 1 common mental illness or disorder
ANXIETY, PTSD, BIPOLAR DISORDER, OCD, PERSONALITY DISORDER, SOCIAL PHOBIA, DEPRESSION, DEMENTIA, SCHIZOPHRENIA, EATING DISORDER, AUTISM, SUBSTANCE ABUSE...etc.