WHAT IS MEDICINE IN SOCIOLOGY

Medicine in sociology is also the diverse collaboration between social science and biomedic in other to improve the standard of health in a medical and sociology point of view.

It tends to understand how different societies react or understand a particular disease and how to solve or produce drugs disease may be seen in other as a natural occurrence due to difference in culture and society.

For example in a family where  they’ve had nothing less than 3 mad person in their family, so if another person should get attention that it’s a normal thing, it tends to study how  humans look at the medical institution.

Medicine in sociology deals with how people can be treated in relating to their various environment.

For example, a drug created for malaria may cure people living in Britain and may not cure people with the same disease living in Nigeria because of climatic, political, economical and other social factors.

Medicine in sociology tends to train medical practioners in way to treat certain people of a community based on their age, sex, religion, high economic status and others.

It deals or focuses on how medical practitioners gain understanding of the ways to treat various disease in the society they are.

Medicine in sociology is a discipline that helps in tackling various problems or solving problems relating to how people can be cured of a particular disease with the proper understanding of their various societies.

For example in the northern part of Nigeria whereby the female cant expose their body to male doctors for treatment, or sharing of information to male doctors, so medical sociologist tends to find an empirical way of dealing with such ascetic, religious induction, and act of religion fundamentalism that as been subjected to the people of the northern part of Nigeria.

To have proper understanding of the influence and different in socio cultural societies and how to handle such situations with the application of sociological and bio-medical factors.

For instance, when one considers malaria morbidity, one may ask why it was possible to eradicate it in developed regions of the world, and this has not been possible in the under developed ones. The reason are not for fetched, the first is related in the actual prevalence of the sign or symptoms and the second is the major value orientation occasioned by the dominant culture while the first one can be dealt with medically, the second is about perception which gives beyond medical intervention.

Historically there has been a long term decline in mortality of both adults an infants in developed or industrialized countries coupled with higher life expectancy than developing or underdeveloped societies.

Gender inequally in society characterized by feminist theory as one of the facilities or treatment one, men and women are situated in society normally differently but also unequally, two women get less of self-actualization than do men who share the same social location, education and nationality which allow unequal use of medical facilities or with adequate facilities for good medical treatment whereby the rural areas do not experience the gargantuan or colossal medical equipment and highly trained doctors that as been posted to urban areas.

The production of less expensive drugs should be periodic so as to help the rag-tags, petty bourgeosis and the non working class of the society to be able to afford them for proper treatment in other words, inequality is as a result of how societies are organized which may be horizontal or vertically.

CONCLUS ION

Effective health care delivery must be viewed from a social science and biomedical aspect with proper understanding of each society with the various cultures and how it must be viewed and studied.

Ethno-specific refers to the need to meet the needs of specific ethnic groups or coalition of ethnic groups that are contiguously very close.

In this regard, members of the ethnic group(s) are targeted clienteles for specific health-care intervention which would take into consideration the culture and tradtion or such groups.

REFERENCES

Aluko-arowolo Sunday olusola-people and culture of Nigeria

Culture and health of people of Nigeria

Olayiwola A. Erinosho 2005 sociology fo medical, nursing and allied professions in Nigeria. Bulwork consult Abuja, Ijebu ode, Abeokuta.