Social Gradient, The continuous relationship where health outcomes improve as social position rises, Medicalisation, Defining non-medical aspects of life (like grief or aging) as medical problems, Iatrogenesis, Harm or illness caused by the medical treatment or the healthcare system itself, Pseudopatients, Healthy people who feign symptoms to test psychiatric hospital diagnosis (as in the Rosenhan study), Schizophrenia in Remission, The label given to Rosenhan’s healthy participants when they were discharged, Functionalism, A theory focusing on how illness disrupts social stability and the norms of the sick role, Marxism, A theory arguing that economic inequality and capitalism are the primary causes of ill health, Interactionism, A theory focusing on the daily experience of illness and how it is labelled by society, The Black Report, A 1980 UK study proving that material/structural factors cause health inequality, Spoiled Identity, Goffman's term for the social exclusion and loss of status caused by a stigma.

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