| A | B |
|---|
| Sick Role | exempt from social roles |
| psychoanalytic theory | Sigmund Freud |
| physician's role | return the sick to normal state of functioning (Parsons) |
| labeling theory | what is regarded by a person or social group may not be regarded the same way by another person or social group |
| Susan Sontag | Illness as a Metaphor |
| stigma | attribute that is deeply discrediting |
| activity-passivity model | treatment based on emergency need due to state of relative helplessness |
| receives a higher level of physician care | middle and upper-class |
| inluence on patient-physician interactions | cultural differences |
| genetic screening | a way to forecast what diseases a person is likely to get |
| deoxyribonucleic acid | DNA |
| therapuetic cloning | cloning of human organs for transplantation |
| mutual participation model | management of chronic illness by both the patient and the physician |
| Bryan Turner | believes regualtion of the human body is needed to protect public health |
| structual functionalism | biological models of deviance |
| zombie theory | a dead theory existing with a bare minimum of life |
| sick person should get well | category of Parsons sick role |
| patient compliance | following the physicians instructions faithfully to become well |
| internet | a major source of medical information |
| permanent condition | lifelong illness (Strauss) |
