Copelton and Weiss - The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness

Arguments

• Medical sociology: the study of healthcare as it is institutionalized in a society, and of health, or illness, and its relationship to social factors

General info

The role of medical sociology in the COVID-19 era

• There are social causes to the pandemic

• There are many social factors that lead to vaccine hesitancy, mistrust of science, and the spread of COVID-19 misinformation

• Medical sociology aims to understand how the social organization and financing of health care systems sometimes facilitate and at other times complicate the worldwide response to COVID-19