Sociology Flashcards
Social consequences of medicalisation?
More people are considered ‘sick’
Engages more health care workers to intervene
Healthcare profession expands into peoples lives.
People with conditions become more entitled to medical care putting more of a strain on the NHS.
Encourages alliances with major players e.g. doctors and pharmaceutical companies.
What is the difference in the social model and the medical model?
Medical model focuses on the the disabled person as the problem.
The social model focuses on society as the problem and this not being suitable for the disabled person.
How is the social model helpful to a disabled person?
Is political and can lead to change.
Positive psychological impact.
Can improve life for individuals
Values disabled culture
Encourages disabled people to participate in their health, (shared responsibility).
How is the social model not helpful to a disabled person?
If an impairment could be improved and isn’t then a persons potential quality of life suffers.
People maybe aren’t allowed to reach their potential
How is the social model helpful/unhelpful for doctors?
Helpful:
- Improved communication
- Improved healthcare
Unhelpful:
- Feel deskilled/threatened as role of doctor is less important.
- May prevent patients from having best quality of life.
- Doctors feel it is not ‘their’ role to intervene.
What is a long term condition?
A condition that at present cannot be cured but can be controlled by medication and therapies.
What is rehabilitation?
A process of active change by which a person who has become disabled acquires the knowledge and skills needed for optimal physical, psychological and social function.
What is a narrative construction?
Stories we tell about our lives in order
to make sense of our lives and give them meaning.
What is biographical disruption?
When people’s narrative’s become disrupted by serious injury.
What do people often do in narrative reconstruction?
Ask why it happened to them
Try and determine their responsibility
Look to the past to explain the cause
Look to the future to give their life meaning
Explore or question spirituality/religion
How are the concepts of narrative helpful to doctors?
Providing an understanding of the patient’s situation.
Improving communication skills.
Encouraging a consideration of a patient’s social, psychological and spiritual needs.
