Medical
Sociology RLOs
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The
Black Report and Inequalities in Health
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| Title: |
The Black Report and
Inequalities in Health |
| ID
Number: |
MS003 |
| Author: |
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| Extras: |
Specification.doc |
| Sections: |
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| Duration: |
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| Developer: |
Alan Leeder |
| Learning
objective: |
To
understand the role of social class in health inequalities |
| Keywords: |
Black
Report, Class, Inequalities, artefact, social drift, culture,
materialism, social capital |
| Summary: |
Shows
the persistence and complexity of the social class/health gradient |
| Prerequisites: |
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| Related
Concepts: |
doctor/patient
relations, professionalisation, deviance |
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Death
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| Title: |
Death |
| ID
Number: |
MS004 |
| Author: |
Kath
Maguire |
| Extras: |
Specification.doc |
| Sections: |
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| Duration: |
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| Developer: |
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| Learning
objective: |
To
explain the centrality of the knowledge of mortality and the
need for its social integration. To consider different views
of death, natural, magical and pathological. Examine the impact
of modern technologies on the experience and expectations of
death. Introduce the concept of 'social death' and its possible
nocebo effect |
| Keywords: |
medicalisation,
hospice, social death, nocebo |
| Summary: |
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Concepts: |
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Doctor/Patient
Relations
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| Title: |
Doctor/Patient Relations |
| ID
Number: |
MS005 |
| Author: |
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| Extras: |
Specification.doc |
| Sections: |
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| Duration: |
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| Developer: |
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| Learning
objective: |
Understanding
the general characteristics of the social roles 'doctor' and
'patient' and how they relate to one another. |
| Keywords: |
Doctor/patient
relations, Social role, gatekeeper, compliance, communication |
| Summary: |
Understanding
various facets of the doctor-patient relationship and factors
that facilitate and impede the success of that relationship |
| Prerequisites: |
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| Related
Concepts: |
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Gender
and Health
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| Title: |
Gender and Health |
| ID
Number: |
MS006 |
| Author: |
Kath
Maguire |
| Extras: |
Specification.doc
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| Sections: |
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| Duration: |
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| Developer: |
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| Learning
objective: |
To
explain the distinction between sex and gender and consider
the impact of gender roles and gendered power relations on medicine,
health and illness. |
| Keywords: |
Sex,
Gender, Patriarchy, Power, Inequality Morbidity, Mortality |
| Summary: |
Distiguish
the concepts sex and gender and proceed to a consideration of
various historical and contemporary aspects of the influence
gender has had on the social institutions of modern medicine
and the distribution of health and illness. |
| Prerequisites: |
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| Related
Concepts: |
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Medicalisation
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| Title: |
Medicalisation |
| ID
Number: |
MS007 |
| Author: |
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| Extras: |
Specification.doc
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| Sections: |
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| Duration: |
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| Developer: |
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| Learning
objective: |
To
explain the concept of medicalisation and the role of the medical
model in the enforcing of social norms |
| Keywords: |
Scientific,
Discipline, Norms |
| Summary: |
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| Prerequisites: |
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Concepts: |
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Parsons'
Sick Role
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| Title: |
Parsons'
Sick Role |
| ID
Number: |
MS002 |
| Author: |
Bryan
Turner, Kath Maguire |
| Extras: |
Specification.doc
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| Sections: |
3 |
| Duration: |
10
minutes |
| Developer: |
Alan
Leeder |
| Learning
objective: |
Understanding
how to think about health and illness as social roles. |
| Keywords: |
Talcott
Parsons, temporary sanctioned deviance, functionalism, psychoanalysis,
authority |
| Summary: |
The
concept, sources, criticisms and strengths of the sick role
as developed by Parsons |
| Prerequisites: |
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| Related
Concepts: |
doctor/patient
relations, professionalisation, deviance |
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Social
Capital
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| Title: |
Social Capital |
| ID
Number: |
MS008 |
| Author: |
Kath
Maguire |
| Extras: |
Specification.doc
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| Sections: |
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| Duration: |
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| Developer: |
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| Learning
objective: |
To
understand the concept of social capital and how it might impact
on health outcomes both positively and negatively |
| Keywords: |
social
cohesion, social network, social support, social integration |
| Summary: |
Explain
the concept social capital and consider various ways in which
sociologists have demonstrated both the importance of this concept
for understanding modern society genrally and the influence
of social capital on health, illness and mortality |
| Prerequisites: |
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| Related
Concepts: |
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Social
Class
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| Title: |
Social
Class |
| ID
Number: |
MS001 |
| Author: |
Kath
Maguire |
| Extras: |
Specification.doc
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| Sections: |
5 |
| Duration: |
10
minutes |
| Developer: |
Dawn
Leeder |
| Learning
objective: |
Understanding
the concept of social class, how it is modelled and some of
the problems attached |
| Keywords: |
class,
conflict, occupation, inequality, NS-SEC |
| Summary: |
Define
and explicate the sociological concept of social class and some
of the debates surrounding its use generally and with specific
reference to health |
| Prerequisites: |
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Concepts: |
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update:
22 September, 2004 1:58 PM
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