1.04 - Embodiment of Sickness & Disease

Question 1

What is embodiment?

Answer 1

The lived, subjective, experience of the body.
It encompasses the ways our bodily feelings (pain, suffering, symptoms of disease) express emotion, social, cultural and political states
Bodily expressions of illness draw draw on cultural repertoires of distress
The ways in which our bodies express distress often reflect social and political inequality

Question 2

What is empathy?

Answer 2

The process of imagining something from someones perspective

Question 3

What is the difference between Cognitive and Emotional empathy

Answer 3

“I feel your pain” vs. “I am a caring person”