This assignment
requires
students to use
the
creative
art
s
and an accompanying essay to
reflect critically
on what they have
learned during the
first section of
SOSC 3116 about
ways in which patients are
constructe
d, used, and understood by
people
who have power over the lives
of patients
.
To do this we
have looked at the creation of “the patient”
as a m
edico
–
sociological typology,
as an institutionalized entity
, and as a research subject
.
We have discussed
“normal”
patients
, “the sick role
”
,
the
patient case file
,
medical
experimentation
,
and how institutions shape patient experience.
Alt
hough not been
a p
rimary focus of
the course
so far
,
w
e have also considered patient
und
erstandings of illness and well
being within this process
.

i have attached all weeks writings from week 2-7
so first page should include cockerham article -Cockerham, W. (2001). The Sick Role in Medical Sociology, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 156-164. (pdf below)
2nd page The institution and the patient- Weinstein, R. (1994). Goffman’s Asylums and the Total Institution Model of Mental Hospitals, Psychiatry, 57/4: 348-367.
3 page contested boundaries- Rosenberg, C. (2006). Contested Boundaries: Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 49/3: 407-24.
4 page the patient case file- Berg, M. and Harterink, P. (2004). Embodying the Patient: Records and Bodies in Early 20th-century US Medical Practice, Body and Society, 10/2-3: 13-41.
5page- 1994. Qualitative methods in sociology and anthropology, in Studying Health and Disease, ed. Kevin McConway. Buckingham, United Kingdom: Open University Press, 37-53.
6 page of essay – Mosby, I. (2013) Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition, Research, and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, Historie Sociale/ Social History, 46/91: 145-172.