Notes:Medical sociology, the sociological analysis of social interactions, organizations, and systems related to health, illness, and medicine
social stigma, a negative label characterized by one or more personal traits that form a stereotype about the individual
edicalization, the process by which non-medical problems become defined and treated as medical problems of certain conditions, can be profitable, such as in childhood and behavioral disorders like Attention Deficit Disorder
medical-industrial complex, the multi-billion-dollar enterprise consisting of doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, insurance companies, drug manufacturers, and hospital supply and equipment companies, is capable of defining health and illness so that it is profitable