INTRODUCTION
• Medical Sociology, and the field of medical sociology
• Contribution of sociology to medicine.
HEALTH AND DISEASE
• Social definition of illness
• Health and disease as deviant behavior
• Social cultural causes of disease
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH & ILLNESS
• Functionalist Approach
• Conflict Approach
• Interactionist Approach
• Labeling Approach
ILLNESS BEHAVIOR AND PERCEPTIONS OF ILLNESS
• Illness Behavior
• Cultural Influences on Illness Behavior
• Sociological and Demographic Influences
• Lay Beliefs About Health and Illness
• Self medication
• Sick Role
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
• The Social Gradient
• Stress Early Life
• Life Expectancy
• Social support networks
• Education and literacy
• Employment/Working conditions
• Social environments
• Addiction
• Food
• Transport
PATIENT AND PHYSICAL THERAPIST
• Physical Therapist s view of disease and the patient
• Patient’s perspective of illness
• Patient Physical Therapist relationship
• Patient-nurses relation
SOCIOLOGY OF MEDICAL CARE
• Hospitals Origin and development.
• Hospitals as social organization: problems of Quackery.
• Interpersonal relationship in medical settings.
• Mental illness in sociological perspective.
• Complementary & alternative Medicine (CAM)
