Week 8: The Sick Role
1. Illnes as Deviance
2. Functionalist approach to Deviance
3. The Sick Role
4. Criticism of the Sick Role
5. Doctor Patient Relationship
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Course Material
- Week 1: Medical Sociology, Defining Health, Contrasting Ideas about Health and Social Behavior
- Week 2: Imagining Health Problems and Social Issues
- Week 3: Epidemiology
- Week 4: Disease and Modernization
- Week 5: Models of Health
- Week 6: Social Stress
- Week 7: Social Factors and Stress
- Week 8: The Sick Role
- Week 9: Mid Term
- Week 10: Labeling Theory
- Week 11: Doctor-Patient Interaction
- Week 12: Patient Compliance
- Week 13: Doctor patient Relation and Technology
- Week 14: Hospitals
- Week 15: The Hospitals- Patient role
- Week 16: Indigenous and Cosmopolitan model of Health care
- Week 17: Social role of Care seeker and care Providres
- Week 18: The body Medicine and Society
- Week 19: Final Term
- Chapters 19
- Department Sociology and Criminology
- Teacher
Dr. Amjad Rehman Asghar
