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absolutist
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holdin or having to do with the view that certain things are always right, good, modern, moral, or beautiful.
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alternative medicine
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any medical treatment or remedy that falls outside of conventional Western medical practices
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arctic hysteria
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s cultural syndrome that was conjured up by white colonizers of the arctic to explain behaviour that might better be explained as resulting from colonialism
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Big Pharma
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the pharmaceutical or drug manufacturing industry, especially when viewed as a large, lucrative industry ultimately more concerned with generating corporate profits that with improving public health
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biomedicine
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the application of standard principles of Western scientific disciplines in the diagnosis and treatment of symptoms of illness
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brain drain
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the exodus of scientists, doctors, and other skilled professionals from a country
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commodification
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the tendency to treat something as though it were an object to be bought or sold
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critical sociology
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sociology that challenged both established sociological theories and the research that sociologists do
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cultural syndromes
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disorders thought to afflict people of only certain ethnicities
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culture of medicine
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the recognition that different cultures have different ways of practicing medicine, including different social courses of diease, different techniques, and different physical remedies
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inverse care law
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J.T. Hart
the theory that good medical care is most available in populations where it is needed the least, and leas available populations where it is needed the most |
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medicalization
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the process by which certain behaviours or conditions are defined as medical problems, and medical intervention becomes the focus of remedy and social control
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medical sociology
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the use of sociological research and data to analyze and improve public health, focusing primarily on how health care is administered and whether the medical system adequately supports both the providers and the recipients of healthcare and health services
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policy sociology
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the use of sociological research and data to produce social change,especially through government or corporate policy
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post traumatic stress disorder
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a condition in which the sufferer experiences serious psychological symptoms stemming from his or her experience of harrowing evens
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psychoneuro-immunology
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the study of the effect of the mind on health and resistance to disease
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racialized
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a social process in which groups of people are viewed and judged as essentially different in terms of their intellect, morality, views, and innate worth because of differences of physical type or cultural heritage
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radical monopoly
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Illich
a situation in which professional control work is deemed socially important |
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reductionist
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denoting any unrealistic statement or theory that attempts to explain a set of phenomena by referring to a single cause
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sick role
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Parsons
the set of expectations that surround a sick person and the experience of being sick |
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social course of disease
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the social interactions that a sick person goes through in the process of being treated
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iatrogenesis
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Illich
health problems that are supposedly cause by health professionals |
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clinical iatrogenesis
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Illich
the ways in which diagnosis and cure cause problems that are equal to or greater than the healthy problems they are meant to resolve |
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cultural iatrogenesis
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Illich
a situation in which knowledge and abilities of healthy professionals have become so mythologized that individuals lose the capacity to heal themselves |
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social iatrogenesis
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Illich
the deliberate obscuring of political conditions that render society unhealthy |
