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FUNCTIONALIST PERSPECTIVE—sickness is a form of deviant behavior (which is a
reason sociologists are regarded as crackpots) by Talcott Parsons, who talked about “the sick
role” (611)—society has to maintain social control, mostly through doctors, over individuals who
enter “the sick role”—the workplace also exerts enormous control by demanding that workers
deny illness, as if it were really a role—http://www.ucel.ac.uk/shield/docs/notes_parsons.pdf
Looked at in a whole different way, the
Gaia theory
(named for the ancient Greek earth
goddess) developed by scientist
James Lovelock
says that all parts of the earth (human and
physical) are globally interlocked so that a change in one (excess pollution or climate warming,
for example) affect all parts, including human health—Lovelock invented in 1957 an electron
capture detector (ECD) that was used by
Rachael Carson
in writing
Silent Spring
, which
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- Fall '10
- Bernhardt
- Sociology, scientist James Lovelock, electron capture detector, significant human illness, ancient Greek earth
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