bound into Social Relations down to their Inner-most Flesh
Contingent on their social, cultural and historical context
Socially constructed
Anti-psychiatry movement
Freidson (1970)
Medicine → Objective Science
Application of Medical Knowledge →
Not objective, Mediated by the Social and Political Circumstances
Phenomenological sociology
Medical anthropologists
Reason for the increasing proportion of older people
The improved care of expectant mother and newborn infants has “reduced the infant mortality rate”
New drugs, better sanitation, and other medical advances have “increased life expectancy”
: Male 58.7>75.6, Female 65.6>83.3 (1970>2008)
Especially, in Korea
The birthrate is rapidly declining >>
사오정(45세 정년),
1. Country Analysis
(1) Cultural & Sociological Factor
The culture of India has been shaped not only by its long history, unique geography and diverse demography, but also by its ancient heritages, which were formed during the Indus Valley Civilization and evolved further during the Vedic age, rise and decline of Buddhism, the Golden age, invasions from Central Asia, European colonization and
, 경제, 정치적 조건과 건강을 연관시켜 연구하고 하는 social hygiene이라는 용어를 주로 사용하며, 영국은 사회주의 색채를 많이 띠고 있으 므로 인간의 사회 생활과 연관시켜 질병의 예방을 추구하려는 medical sociology와 복 지국가 지향의 뜻을 담은 state-medicine이라는 용어를 주로 사용한다.
and spread by fleas with the help of animals like the black rat
Introduction
Geographical Epidemiology
Epidemiology
- The study of factors affecting the health and illness of populations .
- Discovering medical causal relationships based on biology, sociology, mathematics, statistics,
anthropology and so on.
Geographical Epidemiology
- the way of approaching in this research
Introduction