SOC 353: Sociology of Medicine Midterm Review

Week 2

100

This welfare program has been federally funded for 50 years.

SNAP

200

Social factors like education, work characteristics, and income are all considered...?

Social Determinants of Health

300

This is the prejudice or discrimination that is aimed at people with disabilities that often has a patronizing desire to cure their disability and make them "normal"

Ableism

400

This belief/fear is rooted in white supremacy and includes the idea that fatness is "uncivilized" behavior

Fatphobia

500

This theory argues that power, money, knowledge, prestige, and beneficial social connections are key in maintaining good health.

Theory of Fundamental Causes

Week 3

100

Physical harm, emotional violence, and sexual violence are all types of what category of violence?

Typical violence

200

Residents of these areas have higher rates of chronic illness and often use hospitals as their only source of healthcare

Rural

300

This is the unequal access to resources, political power, education, health care, and culture.

Structural violence

400

This group is more likely to have behavioral, mental, and physical health disparities like diabetes, suicidal ideation, and an increased risk of sexual violence victimization.

Immigrants

500

Name one of the five attributes that uphold structural violence.

Power, marginality, oppression, adversity, or trauma

Week 4

100

This is the formal process of designating neighborhoods for mortgage loans based on "risk"

Redlining

200

This agency was the main user of redlining maps for denying loans

Federal Housing Administration (FHA)

300

This color indicated a neighborhood was "definitely declining"

Yellow

400

This infrastructure was used to destroy specific neighborhoods and displace communities of color.

Highways

500

This physical manifestation of environmental inequality can result in water pollution and flooding.

Impervious surfaces

Week 6

100

Childbirth pain was considered exclusive to what group of people by white male physicians?

White women

200

This term is key in identifying how a Tennessee senator attempted to blame biological differences for the increased risk of maternal mortality in Black women

Incidence

300

Anti-Black logic and practice include the naturalization of what types of situations for Black individuals? (name one).

Mistreatment, suffering, violence, or death

400

What are the two types of death proposed in Danielle's article on the relationship between OB/Gyn knowledge and the death of Black women.

Physical and symbolic

500

Name one of the "turning point" reproductive technologies that was key in American childbirth.

Forceps or the cesarean/c-section

Mixed Bag

100

Residents of this type of topography had limited access to clean air due to industry pollution.

Flatlanders / flat land

200

The shortening of one's life induced by stress is called...

Biological Weathering

300

This type of experience is associated with a threat to future chronic physical and emotional health problems.

Adverse Childhood Experiences

400

This type of medical knowledge has been considered a social determinant of death

OB/Gyn

500

Members of this family all experienced cancer during, or after, being exposed to TCE despite the government's assurance that their well water was safe.

Holt family