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Social Theorizing about Health and Illness

WEBThe new model of disease and illness provided what must count as the most successful theory of health and illness, spreading over the last two centuries to become …

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The Sociology of Health and Illness

WEBPhilosophical Questions Undergirding the Sociology of Health and Illness. The sociology of health and illness developed in a historical context attempting to …

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The Social Construction of Medicine and the Body

WEBThe term ‘body image’ has been used to denote the ways in which the lived experience of the body is brought together with sociocultural meaning in the ways in …

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Cultural Variation in the Experience of Health and Illness

WEBAnn McElroy & Mary Ann Jezewski. Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine. Editor: Gary L Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick, Susan C Scrimshaw. Sage …

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Generation Stress: The Mental Health Crisis on Campus

WEBBut according to the 2016-17 Healthy Minds Study, an annual survey of mental health on American college campuses, while 44 percent of students said that they were …

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Personal Experience of Illness

WEBThe ‘personal experience of illness’ is thus inextricable from the pull of social and cultural change that takes place on every level, from the distinctively local to the …

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The History of the Changing Concepts of Health and Illness: …

WEBEmpirical Rationalism and the Growth of Experimental Medicine. In sociology, we are familiar with the argument (Weber 1930) that the ascetic and …

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Lifespan, Gender, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives in …

WEBGender and Health. An average woman’s life expectancy in the West is significantly greater than that of men of the same birth cohort. United Kingdom data for …

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Research Methods in Health Psychology

WEBThis first section describes different philosophical approaches taken to research methods, with a view to highlighting where these lead to controversies and …

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Medical Uncertainty Revisited

WEBEpistemológical Uncertainty ‘These are strange times, when we are healthier than ever but more anxious about our health,’ writes social historian of medicine Roy …

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The Great Depression: Public Health 1929-1941

WEBHugh Smith Cumming, M.D. (1869-1948) Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service from 1920 to 1936. Hugh Smith Cumming joined the Marine Hospital Service in …

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Historical and Epidemiological Trends in Mortality in the

WEBThe U.S. population continued to increase at a rate of around 3% annually from 1790 to 1860 due to immigration, high fertility, and decreases in mortality patterns …

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The Medical Profession: Knowledge, Power, and Autonomy

WEBDavid Coburn & Evan Willis. Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine. Editor: Gary L Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick, Susan C Scrimshaw. Sage …

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Wellness: Health, Nutrition, and Physical Education

WEBOne main area of the initiative is the relationship between quality school physical education and healthy students. Three of the health objectives focused on …

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Great Depression: Medicine and the Family in the 1930s

WEBAccording to physicians, the healthy home stood as the centerpiece, the great accomplishment, of the family in the 1930s. The household stood at the apex of …

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Sport and Health: A Sociological Perspective

WEBThe central objective of this paper is to try to develop a distinctively sociological approach to understanding some of the key issues in the relationship …

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Circumcision: The Good, the Bad, and American Values

WEBThe average charge for circumcision in an office setting between three days and nine months of age is $196, and the same procedure performed in the operating room costs …

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Make Do or Do Without: Women During the Great Depression

WEBFor the majority of American women, life during the Great Depression meant hard work, getting by with less, and living by the old adage, “use it up, wear it out, make …

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What is a Medical or Therapeutic Miracle

WEBThis is an opportunity for God to intervene in the recipient’s life. Miracles are gifts from God and must be received, and not demanded. However, they can be, and …

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The Death Awareness Movement: Description, History, and Analysis

WEBIn its beginnings, the death awareness movement was aligned in goals with many of the social movements and trends of the 1960s. It asserted the rights and dignity …

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Disability and the Asian Culture

WEBJournal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling. Volume 45, Issue 2. Summer 2014. The Asian population is one of the fastest-growing racial groups in the U.S. with …

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