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Allopathic medicine |
the prevailing form of healing in modern society, whereby the method of treating a disease endeavours to produce a condition of the body different from, opposite to or incompatible with, the condition essential to the disease. |
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Homeopathic medicine |
the system of treating the disease by administering, in minute quantities, substances which would, if given in larger doses to a healthy person, produce symptoms similar to those of the disease. |
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Epidemiology |
the study of the causes and distribution of disease |
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latrogenic |
describes that which creates disease and illness as it provides medical assistance. In other words, this is a disease and death resulting from medical treatment. |
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Intersubjectivity (also referred to as reflexivity) |
the social scientist is a participant in the very social reality he or she is studying; therefore, it is impossible to gather unbiased data. |
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Macro analysis |
focuses on systems, as in both the structural funtionalist and conflict theory traditions. |
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Micro analysis |
focuses on the individual mind, self, interaction and meaning, as in the symbolic interactionist tradition. |
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Medicalization |
a process whereby more and more of everyday life has come under medical dominion, influence and control. |
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Negative case analysis |
a mode of proof which requires that for a hypothesis to be confirmed, every single instance of the phenomenon must support the hypothesis. |
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Participant observation |
a methodological approach in which the researcher shares in the activities of the people being studied in order to understand experiences in their lives. |
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Positivism |
positivists sociologists assume that social facts are real and external and can be studied objectively. |
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Positivist methodology |
is based in the method of the physical sciences. Data, assumed to be objected is collected from surveys, questionnaires, interviews and experiments. |
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Qualitative research |
emphasizes in-depth, detailed descriptive accounts of social actions occurring at a specific place and time. |
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Quantitative research |
usually involves statistical measurements of various kinds which are cross-tabulated with one another to explain the variability of social events. |
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Social facts |
these include such things as gender, class, educational level, family type, marital status, age, rural/urban background, religious affiliation, religiosity, political ideology and the norms and customs of a society. Durkeim believed that the first rule of social analysis was to consider social facts as things that could be observed, measured and explained. |
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The sick role |
defined by Talcott Parsons (1951) to account for the way society organizes behaviour around sickness. The definition includes two rights and two duties for the person assuming the sick role. |
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Verstehen |
"empathetic understanding" is Weber's idea of the basic method of the social sciences. |
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Disease mongering |
the creation of a new disease for the sake of profit |
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Evidence based medicine |
medical practice based on published guidelines derived from meta-analyses of scientific research |
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Technological imperative |
the tendency for new technologies to drive social and medical practice |
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Drapetomania |
a disease defined as causing slaves to run away from their masters |