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Allopathic Medicine
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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, opposition or incompatible with the condition essential to the disease.
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Hemeopathic Medicine
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The system of treating the disease by administering in minute quantities, substacnes which would if given in larger doses to a health person produce symptoms similar to those of the disease
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Epidemiology
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The study of causes and distribution of the disease
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Latrogenic
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Describes that which creates 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
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(Also referred to reflexivity) the social scientist is a participant in the very social reality he or she studying therefor it is impossible to gather unbiased data
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Macro Analysis
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Focuses on systems as in both the structural functionalist and conflict theory traditions
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Micro Analysis
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focuses on the individuals mind, self, interaction and meaning, as in symbolic interactionist tradition
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Medicalization
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A process whereby more and more of everyday life has come under medical dominion, influence and control
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Negative Case Analysis
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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
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A Methodological approach in which researcher shares in the activites of people being studied in order to understand experiences of their lives
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Positivism
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Positivists sociologists assume that social facts are real and external and can be studied objectively
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Positivist Methodology
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Is based in the world of physical sciences. Data, assumed to be objected is collected from surveys, questionnaires, interviews and experiments
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Qualitative Research
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Emphasizes in-depth detailed accounts of social actions occurring at a specific place and time
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Quantitative Research
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Usually involves satistical measurementsof various kinds which are cross tabulated with one another to explain the variability of social events
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Social Facts
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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. Durkhiem beleived that the first rule of social analysis was to consider social facts as things that could be observed, measured and expanded
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The Sick Role
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Defined by Talcott Parsons (1951) to account for the way society organizes behaviour around sickness. The Defintion includes two rights and two duties for the person assuming the sick role
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Verstehen
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"empathetic understanding" is weber's idea of the basic method of the social sciences
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Disease Mongering
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The Creating of new disease for the sake of profit
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Evidence Based Medicine
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Medical practice based on published guidelines derived from meta-analyses of scientific research
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Technological Imperative
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The tendency for new technologies to drive social and medical pracitce
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Drapetomania
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a disease defined as causing slaves to run away from their masters
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