| anabolic steroids
|
muscle mass enhancing drugs |
| anorexia nervosa;
anorexia |
a condition characterized by compulsive
dieting resulting in self-starvation |
| bulimia |
an eating disorder characterized by alternate
binge-eating followed by purging or induced vomiting |
| defensive medicine
|
practiced by physicians who order extra
precautionary tests on a patient in an effort to fend off a
lawsuit by the patient |
| epidemiology |
the study of all factors—biological, social,
economic, and cultural—that are associated with disease and
health |
| euthanasia |
the act of killing a severely ill person or
allowing the person to die, as an act of mercy |
| health maintenance
organization (HMO) |
a cooperative of doctors and other medical
personnel who provide medical services in exchange for a set
membership fee |
| holistic medicine
|
medical treatment directed toward a person’s
entire mental and physical state |
| managed care |
a health care system wherein all individuals
are members of an HMO (health maintenance organization), with
the intent of reducing fees and insurance costs |
| Medicaid |
governmental assistance program for the poor
|
| medical model |
a framework that interprets a given condition
as purely a physiological or medical issue |
| Medicare |
governmental assistance program for the
elderly |
| sick role |
a pattern of expectations of behaviors
defined in society as appropriate for one who is ill |
| social epidemiology
|
the study of the effects of social and
cultural factors upon disease and health |
| stigma |
an attribute that is socially devalued and
discredited |
| Tuskegee Syphilis
Study |
an unethical study of about 400
syphilis-infected African American men who went untreated for
the disease for forty years, from 1932 to 1972, even though a
cure (penicillin) was discovered in the early 1950s |