{"id":724,"date":"2011-05-23T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=724"},"modified":"2011-11-07T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:52:10","slug":"medical-sociology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/05\/23\/medical-sociology\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Sociology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left\"><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by tjmwatson on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/63603238@N00\/383858071\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/157\/383858071_da383f7ec9_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Stethoscope\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>The questions and activity below can be used with &#8220;Key Findings from 50 Years of Medical Sociology,&#8221; by Katherine J. Rosich and Janet R. Hankin (<em>Contexts<\/em>, Fall 2010). \u00a0This article could also be paired with Theda Skocpol\u2019s \u201cOne Thing I Know\u201d on health care reform from the Winter 2011 issue of\u00a0<em>Contexts<\/em>.<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>How do the authors portray the American health care system at the start of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century?<\/li>\n<li>The article suggests that asking questions about definitions (like \u201cwhat is illness\u201d) enables us to explore and understand the impact of definitions.\u00a0 Write your personal definition of health.\u00a0 Then, examine the World Health Organization\u2019s definition of health.\u00a0 How does your definition compare?\u00a0 How might different ways of defining health impact how it\u2019s understood and treated?<\/li>\n<li>Activity:\u00a0 Hold a debate about universal health care.\u00a0 Assign students to argue for or against universal health care and assign research for the debate as homework.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The questions and activity below can be used with &#8220;Key Findings from 50 Years of Medical Sociology,&#8221; by Katherine J. Rosich and Janet R. Hankin (Contexts, Fall 2010). \u00a0This article could also be paired with Theda Skocpol\u2019s \u201cOne Thing I Know\u201d on health care reform from the Winter 2011 issue of\u00a0Contexts. How do the authors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33,152,838],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-health","tag-medical","tag-readings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}