Anxiety Disorders

anxiety disorders, feelings of worry and fearfulness that last for months at a time commodification the changing of something not generally thought of as a commodity into something that

can be bought and sold in a marketplace contested illnesses illnesses that are questioned or considered questionable by some medical

professionals demedicalization the social process that normalizes “sick” behavior disability a reduction in one’s ability to perform everyday tasks; the World Health Organization notes that

this is a social limitation epidemiology the study of the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases impairment the physical limitations a less-able person faces individual mandate a government rule that requires everyone to have insurance coverage or they will have

to pay a penalty legitimation the act of a physician certifying that an illness is genuine medical sociology the systematic study of how humans manage issues of health and illness, disease and

disorders, and healthcare for both the sick and the healthy medicalization the process by which aspects of life that were considered bad or deviant are redefined as

sickness and needing medical attention to remedy medicalization of deviance the process that changes “bad” behavior into “sick” behavior mood disorders long-term, debilitating illnesses like depression and bipolar disorder morbidity the incidence of disease mortality the number of deaths in a given time or place personality disorders disorders that cause people to behave in ways that are seen as abnormal to society

but seem normal to them private healthcare health insurance that a person buys from a private company; private healthcare can

either be employer-sponsored or direct-purchase public healthcare health insurance that is funded or provided by the government sick role the pattern of expectations that define appropriate behavior for the sick and for those who take

care of them social epidemiology the study of the causes and distribution of diseases