Introduction to Medical Sociology Exam Review
Course Introduction
Introduction to Medical Sociology explores the complex relationship between society and health, examining how cultural, social, economic, and institutional factors influence health, illness, and healthcare practices. The course introduces key sociological theories and concepts related to the organization of healthcare systems, health disparities, the patient-provider relationship, and the social determinants of health. Through case studies and critical analysis, students gain an understanding of how social structures shape health outcomes, access to healthcare, and perceptions of illness, preparing them to better understand the role of society in shaping medical experiences and public health policies.
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The Sociology of Health Healing and Illness 7th Edition by Gregory L. Weiss
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Chapter 1: The Sociology of Health,Illness, and Health Care
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Q1) Researchers increasingly use big data because it
A) reflects virtually the entire population.
B) less often was collected for a specific purpose that might have biased the results.
C) is increasingly accessible due to electronic record keeping.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Before 1900,the most common causes of death in the United States were
A) chronic diseases.
B) infectious diseases.
C) accidents and trauma.
D) infant and maternal mortality.
E) diseases of old age.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Social Sources of Illness
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Q1) The Health Belief Model implicitly suggests that
A) complying with medical advice can sometimes cause harm.
B) complying with medical advice is a good idea.
C) those who do not comply with medical advice usually have good reasons for their actions.
D) medical advice sometimes lacks scientific grounding.
E) drugs can be dangerous.
Answer: B
Q2) Research clearly demonstrates that
A) obesity significantly increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes.
B) being even slightly overweight significantly lowers life expectancy.
C) individuals eat less at buffets with many options.
D) all of above
E) none of the above
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: The Social Distribution of Illness in the United States
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Q1) Which of the following is true?
A) Current data suggests that Hispanic Americans die younger than do white non-Hispanics.
B) Hispanic Americans are less likely than white non-Hispanics to have health insurance.
C) On average, immigrants from Central America are in as good health as immigrants from Mexico.
D) Infant mortality is considerably higher among Hispanic Americans than among white non-Hispanics.
E) Hispanic Americans are paradoxically vulnerable to malaria.
Answer: B
Q2) African Americans with kidney disease are more likely to die than whites with the disease because
A) fewer African Americans are referred to transplant programs.
B) drugs developed for white Americans don't work as well on African Americans.
C) African Americans are less likely to want treatment.
D) for genetic reasons, African Americans have naturally weaker kidneys.
E) African Americans don't push hard enough to get treatment.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Illness and Death in the Less Developed Nations
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Q1) The special health problems along the US-Mexico border in part reflect the impact of A) social drift.
B) globalization.
C) medicalization.
D) the technological imperative.
E) leprosy.
Q2) What role do the more developed nations play-intentionally or unintentionally-in fostering illness in the less developed nations?
Q3) Chronic malnutrition in the less developed nations can best be explained by A) overpopulation.
B) lack of natural resources.
C) population density.
D) the social distribution of food and other resources.
E) none of the above
Q4) Why has HIV/AIDS spread more rapidly in Africa than in the United States? Why has heterosexual transmission played a greater role in Africa?
Q5) Why should war and disasters be considered public health issues?
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Chapter 5: The Social Meanings of Illness
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Q1) Which of the following is a negative social sanction?
A) bribes
B) execution
C) illness
D) disease
E) socialization
Q2) Which of the following is an underlying assumption of functionalism?
A) Society is a smoothly-working, integrated whole.
B) Society is held together by coercion and constraint.
C) Deviance is necessary for society to evolve.
D) Society's needs often conflict with individuals' needs.
E) Illness is functional.
Q3) In the nineteenth century,medical textbooks generally described masturbation as a sign of illness.Modern textbooks,however,do not.This is an example of
A) medicalization.
B) demedicalization.
C) depoliticization.
D) medical collaboration.
E) reductionistic treatment.
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Chapter 6: The Experience of Disability, Chronic Pain, and Chronic Illness
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Q1) Someone who wins wheelchair marathons to prove he is no different from others despite his disability is
A) passing.
B) engaging in deviance disavowal.
C) challenging stigma.
D) engaging in illness behavior.
E) engaging in sick role behavior.
Q2) The idea that disabled persons would experience fewer problems if they had better attitudes is an example of
A) restricting impairments.
B) the sociological model of disability.
C) blaming the victim.
D) institutional isomorphism.
E) functionalism.
Q3) Should people with disabilities be considered a minority group? Why or why not?
Q4) In part,an individual's experience of disability and illness reflects their social identity.What do studies tell us about how women's and men's experiences of disability differ?
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Chapter 7: The Sociology of Mental Illness
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Q1) According to Goffman,persons who are treated in large mental hospitals typically experience
A) cure.
B) remission.
C) recurrences of their illness.
D) mortification.
E) deinstitutionalization.
Q2) A person who thinks he is Napoleon
A) breaks cognitive norms.
B) has an organic illness.
C) breaks feeling norms.
D) should be treated with psychoactive drugs.
E) probably has end-stage syphilis.
Q3) The sociological model of mental illness assumes that
A) psychiatrists label any behavior that breaks social norms as mental illness.
B) anyone who breaks social norms is equally likely to be labeled mentally ill.
C) behavior becomes labeled as mental illness when powerful persons consider it both unacceptable and incomprehensible.
D) treatment for mental illness may not help, but it cannot hurt.
E) sociologists can treat mental illness better than psychologists can.
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Chapter 8: Health Care in the United States
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Q1) Which of the following is true?
A) Medical journals will not publish articles on drug research funded by the pharmaceutical industry.
B) Doctors cannot legally prescribe a drug as treatment for a given condition unless it has been scientifically tested for that specific condition.
C) Pharmaceutical companies cannot legally market a new and expensive drug unless it differs substantially from older, less expensive drugs.
D) University-based medical researchers do not accept research funding from the pharmaceutical industry.
E) none of the above
Q2) The original health maintenance organizations
A) used retrospective reimbursement.
B) considered it less expensive to treat illness than to prevent it.
C) paid doctors on salary rather than on a fee-for-service basis.
D) were less cost-efficient than traditional fee-for-service insurers.
E) allowed patients to choose their own doctors.
Q3) What kinds of health care reforms do you think are necessary? What stakeholders would be likely to oppose those reforms?
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Chapter 9: Health Care Around the Globe
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Q1) Which of the following is true?
A) Since the time of the Chinese Revolution, the Chinese government has provided equal access to health care to all its citizens.
B) In recent years, the Chinese health care system has reduced its emphasis on profit-making.
C) Events in the Democratic Republic of Congo demonstrate the difficulties of offering quality health care in the face of armed conflicts.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
Q2) Health care in Mexico is provided through A) a three-tiered system.
B) National Health Insurance.
C) managed care organizations.
D) the Ministry of Defense.
E) political parties.
Q3) How is health care rationed in Canada and Great Britain? Are these systems of rationing better,worse,or no different from how we ration care in the United States?
Q4) Which nation's health care system would you prefer? Why?
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Chapter 10: Health Care Settings and Technologies
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Q1) US citizens who need nursing home care
A) generally pay for it through Medicare.
B) are disproportionately African-American.
C) often become impoverished as a result.
D) cannot legally be moved to a lower-quality home if their funds run out.
E) are generally under age 65.
Q2) Which of the following is true?
A) Few 90-year-old American men have prostate cancer.
B) Prostate cancer kills most who develop it.
C) Treatment for prostate cancer causes few significant side-effects.
D) A nationwide prostate cancer detection and treatment program would reduce the national costs for the disease.
E) A nationwide detection and treatment program would increase the national costs of dealing with prostate cancer.
Q3) Which of the following is not a technology?
A) Band-Aids
B) heart-lung machines
C) the process of blood transfusion
D) fruit salads with high vitamin C content
E) blood pressure machines
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Chapter 11: The Profession of Medicine
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Q1) The system under which the government sets an average length of hospital stay and costs for in-patient treatment for each possible diagnosis is known as
A) retrospective payment.
B) deprofessionalization.
C) corporatization.
D) diagnostic-related groups.
E) Medicaid.
Q2) Since the 1960s,
A) the percentage of health care institutions owned by investor-owned corporations has increased.
B) corporations increasingly have purchased only one kind of health care institution (such as only nursing homes or only hospitals).
C) the ratio of doctors per capita has decreased.
D) the proportion of doctors in private practice has grown.
E) doctors' ability to fight government regulation has grown.
Q3) Until recently,doctors overwhelmingly were white,male,and middle- or upper-class.How has this affected medical dominance over other occupations? How has it affected the treatment of patients who are not white,male,or affluent? How might this be changing?
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Chapter 12: Other Mainstream and Alternative Health Care
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Q1) How have attitudes toward women and femininity affected the social position of nursing as an occupation,historically and currently? How do those attitudes shape the experiences of male and female nurses today?
Q2) To gain professional status,osteopaths
A) fought against licensure.
B) increased educational requirements for becoming an osteopath.
C) pushed for the legitimacy of spinal manipulation and refused to use drug treatments.
D) fought against merger with allopathic medicine.
E) sued the AMA for job discrimination.
Q3) Which of the following belong to an occupation that is both limited and marginal?
A) nurses
B) curanderos
C) pharmacists
D) chiropractors
E) direct-entry midwives
Q4) Compare and contrast the fields of dentistry and osteopathy.What factors have allowed medicine to dominate osteopathy but not dentistry?
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Chapter 13: Issues in Bioethics
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Q1) The effectiveness of commercial Institutional Review Boards is limited by A) conflicts of interest.
B) insufficient federal oversight.
C) managed care regulations.
D) their reliance on career bureaucrats.
E) heavy-handed federal oversight committees.
Q2) Which of the following statements about stem cell research is true?
A) Supporters argue that it will stem the rise in new cases of cancer.
B) It has increasingly shifted into universities and away from the for-profit sector.
C) Opponents equate harvesting stem cells to killing humans.
D) It has already produced effective treatments for several diseases.
E) none of the above
Q3) The modern bioethics movement developed in the A) 1920s.
B) 1930s.
C) 1940s.
D) 1960s.
E) 1990s.
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