Glossary:Look these words up at the following web site: Glossary of Social Science
| mental disorder | Schizophrenia | relative poverty |
| Psychosis | public health care | dual welfare system |
| Medicaid | managed care | stratification |
| Bioethics | physicians assistants | social mobility |
| medical model of behavior | Medicare | absolute poverty |
| HMOs | Deinstitutionalization | structural unemployment |
| Iatrogenic | sick role | class |
| secondary deviance | primary deviance | underclass |
| Wealthfare | fee-for-service medicine | class consciousness |
| crisis medicine | curative medicine | culture of poverty |
| AIDS | welfare state | division of labor |
| chronic disease | lifestyle changes | split labor market |
| Longevity | life expectancy | acute disease |
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Development and disease patterns |
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HIV (U.S. and around the world) |
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Causes of the rise in health care costs |
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Social factors in illness |
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Lack of access |
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Recent poverty rates |
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Demographics of the poor |
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Feminization of poverty |
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Working and poverty |
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Disability and poverty |
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Deinstitutionalization and poverty |
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Poverty and the rise of service occupations |
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Welfare reform |
Thomas Szasz
Herbert Gans
William Julius Wilson
Christopher Jencks
Essay
Questions:
According to Elwell (Industrializing America), what is managed care? What are the consequences of managed care for medical practitioners? For patients?
According to your instructor, what factors account for the rapidly escalating medical costs in American society?
How is development related to disease patterns within a sociocultural system?
How does SES affect access to health care in the U.S.?
What factors led to the establishment of managed health care in America?
According to The Economist (The Euthanasia Wars), what is the difference, if any, between doctor-assisted suicide and euthanasia?
What is passive euthanasia? Why is this less objectionable to many people than active euthanasia?
Describe the arguments that are generally made against doctor-assisted suicide. Do the data from the Dutch study support any of these arguments?
According to Cohen (Who Should be on Welfare), what do Welfare professionals mean by "the hard to serve"? What makes these individuals so difficult to serve?
Briefly describe the new Welfare rules.
How has the current booming economy helped former Welfare recipients? Under the new Welfare rules, what will likely happen to these people as the economy slows down?
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