module 1 Flashcards
(34 cards)
What is the World Health Organisation’s entangled definition of health?
“A state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and merely the absence of disease”
What are the 4 narratives/stories of health of Arthur Frank?
Restitution stories, chaos stories, quest stories, testimonial stories
What is a restitution story?
Associated with the recently ill and recovered, rather than chronically ill. Active character is medication/treatment and there is less emphasis on metaphysical components (change to self, identity and purpose)
What are chaos stories?
Stories from those that have no distance from their illness and are consumed by it with no treatment until the self becomes broken
What are quest stories?
Story has evidence of a initiation, period and return. Heroic construction of endurance in which one finds purpose in suffering.
What are testimonial stories?
Stories that press someone to witness and believe healing, illness that exclude information that contradicts the storyline
What are the parts of the temporal patterns in Hånkanson & Öhlén’s reading - ‘Illness narratives of people who are homeless’?
Falling ill, being ill, the future
What illness narrative is described in Hånkanson & Öhlén’s reading - ‘Illness narratives of people who are homeless’?
Chaos stories
What is the difference between illness and disease?
Illness is what we feel when we visit a doctor and disease is what we have when we leave the doctor
What is meant by health care pluralism?
There are multiple sources of expertise and knowledge in health - lay, folk and professional
What is meant by the hierarchy of resort?
The path people take through the multiple sources of health knowledge and expertise
What is the conguilhem definition of health?
The capacity to become sick and recover, the capacity to continue life rather than just return to ‘normal.’
How is pilgrimage described in Pfitser’s article ‘Predicament and Pilgramage: Hearing families of Deaf children in Mexico City.’?
Parents undertake journey from disillusionment with biomedical approach to deafness to relief at bilingual schools
What is culturality, as described in Pfitser’s reading - ‘Predicament and Pilgramage: Hearing families of Deaf children in Mexico City.’?
The characteristics of a community that has shared values and characteristics/experiences. Families joined deaf and signing community
What are the 3 phases of the alienation of suffering?
alienation from self, alienation from others, making strangers out of those you know
What is suffering?
A state of distress brought about by an actual or perceived threat to the integrity or continued existence of the whole body/self
What is the difference between pain and suffering?
If pain has a purpose then it is not suffering and requires no healing
What is intersectionality?
The enhancement and diminution of life chances due to our psychological makeup and the context in which we have developed culturally and socially.
What is structural suffering?
The systematic, widespread, predictable inequality of access to those processes that enhance and sustain wellbeing.
What is the social model of disability?
The manner in which social norms restrict the chances of those who are different from the norms but are otherwise normal
What is the predicament model of disability?
Explains the medical and social aspects that are disabling. Disability is a predicament that we must find out a way to personally resolve
What is medicalisation?
When medicine encroaches onto aspects of life that were not historically recognised as needing biomedical oversight
What are gaze theories?
Gaze in gender, race, ability etc. define, categorise and devalue ‘abnormal’ bodies. external identity is synonymous with the objectified body, disregarding all other aspects of humanity
What is biopower?
The theory that social power due to wealth, influence, etc. operates via health knowledge that aims to control society.
