Stroke: The Sociology Behind It
According to John Hopkins Medicine (n.d.), Hippocrates, the father of medicine, discovered stroke about 2400+ years ago, but at the time, the Greek referred to stroke as apoplexy which meant “struck down by violence”. Sometimes referred to as a brain attack, stroke is a cerebrovascular disease that damages portions of the brain because of the tremendous loss of blood vessels individuals experience. Some sources label stroke as a chronic disease and others label it as an acute disease. Conclusively, as implied, this disease has tormented many individuals of many ages for a long period of time, and this paper addresses the sociological rather than the medical aspect of a stroke.
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The most common causation theory is hypertension. Hypertension is the simply the stressing of blood flow to the heart and the brain. When hypertension occurs, it can and will most likely result in a fatty substance buildup in a blood vessel away from the brain (embolic ischemic stroke) thus causing an ischemic stroke.
In addition to the previous causation theory, I believe the conflict theory is also a sociological theory associated with stroke. The conflict theory could be and is best defined as the theory of which emphasizes social, political, or material imbalances of a social group, or in this stroke. The way this stroke relates symbolically to this theory is simply the fact that a "social imbalance", typically stressed blood flow, causes individuals, such as fatty substances to build up and form a clot blocking blood flow to the brain or the heart.
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The model consists of five doctrines of which can applicable to the illness stroke. These doctrines include the fact that illness is a deviation from normal, it is specific and is universally applicable, it is brought about by novel biological constraints, it is like the breakdown of a machine, and doctors characterize and treat illnesses medically through a neutral experimental procedure. In other words, the doctrines include the fact that illness is an objective label, it is non-moral, it is apolitical, and it results from a unique etiology or
According to John Hopkins Medicine (n.d.), Hippocrates, the father of medicine, discovered stroke about 2400+ years ago, but at the time, the Greek referred to stroke as apoplexy which meant “struck down by violence”. Sometimes referred to as a brain attack, stroke is a cerebrovascular disease that damages portions of the brain because of the tremendous loss of blood vessels individuals experience. Some sources label stroke as a chronic disease and others label it as an acute disease. Conclusively, as implied, this disease has tormented many individuals of many ages for a long period of time, and this paper addresses the sociological rather than the medical aspect of a stroke.
Social Epidemiology
Overview of …show more content…
The most common causation theory is hypertension. Hypertension is the simply the stressing of blood flow to the heart and the brain. When hypertension occurs, it can and will most likely result in a fatty substance buildup in a blood vessel away from the brain (embolic ischemic stroke) thus causing an ischemic stroke.
In addition to the previous causation theory, I believe the conflict theory is also a sociological theory associated with stroke. The conflict theory could be and is best defined as the theory of which emphasizes social, political, or material imbalances of a social group, or in this stroke. The way this stroke relates symbolically to this theory is simply the fact that a "social imbalance", typically stressed blood flow, causes individuals, such as fatty substances to build up and form a clot blocking blood flow to the brain or the heart.
Social …show more content…
The model consists of five doctrines of which can applicable to the illness stroke. These doctrines include the fact that illness is a deviation from normal, it is specific and is universally applicable, it is brought about by novel biological constraints, it is like the breakdown of a machine, and doctors characterize and treat illnesses medically through a neutral experimental procedure. In other words, the doctrines include the fact that illness is an objective label, it is non-moral, it is apolitical, and it results from a unique etiology or