2-13 lectures Flashcards
what is health?
a state of complete physical, mental, social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
what is epidemiology?
the study of the occurrence and distribution of health-related events, states, or processes in specified populations, including the study of the determinants influencing such processes and the application of this knowledge to control relevant health problems
what is humanities?
human feelings
how do issues arise in health?
when people have the incorrect perspectives with people
is story telling active or not?
active
how can we tell the difference between a good story and a bad story?
cultural specific
what can stories provoke?
emotions in the audience by the way the story teller is being active and drawing the story
what are narritives doing?
not accidental
they know how to calculate and put together a good story
what is story telling useful for?
in a clinical situation such as a patient telling a story and the doctor asking questions
what can asking questions do?
can be a form of story telling
what is self talk?
is like telling a story to yourself and can be useful for self healing
what can story telling identify?
illness from a patient to a doctor
what are the 4 types of stories?
restitution
chaos
quest
testimonial
who tell restitution stories?
people who are recently ill but were fine not that long ago but are fine now
what do restitution stories do?
help people and tell the story
who cant tell restitutional stories?
people who have not healed from an illness
what are chaos endings like?
hard to bare, not great endings
what do chaos stories tell?
people who cant escape their illness or a break up with a romantic partner
what can a health care person do about a chaos story?
there isn’t much that they can do so all that they can do is sit and listen
what type of story keeps people down?
chaos
what do quest stories tell?
a departure as they go on a journey
the story teller is heroic in the story
what does the audience behave like in a quest story?
see this as endurance and forbearance and can strike hope in the audience
what are a good example of a quest story?
alcoholics anonymous by telling stories to help lift up people and keep each other sober
what do testimonial stories do to the audience?
makes us believe
what does the narator do in a testimonial story do?
choose to exclude things from the story to make themselves sound better and more believable
what are images?
strong story tellers
what do most stories consist of?
a mix of all types of stories
what do chaos stories leave out?
the possibility of hope and acceptance
what do quest stories tend to diminish?
the suffering involved at least initially in a quest
what can journeys explain?
health, illness and disease
what are unexpected journeys?
not knowing what is happening throughout the journey but know that it can lead you to the destination
what does the reason of an unexpected journey do?
leaves you clueless but impacts the goal and ahs a deeper meaning
what is an illness?
how you feel when you visit the doctor
what is a disease?
what we have when we leave the doctors office
what is illness like?
a misfortune and is subjective experience of physical and emotional changes which are generally confirmed by other people
what can illness lead to in our well-being?
leaves us demorilised
what is the language of distress?
when we talk to others about our illness
what 2 things does the language of distress bridge between?
subjective experiences of impaired well
social acknowledgment of them
what causes the language of distress?
not what you do but the context of what you are doing
what has different languages of distress?
different cultures
what happens if the bridge of language distress is not working between you and others?
the bridge is contested
what can contest the bridge of distress?
you thinking your ill and other dont agree with you
or
when people think you have a disease but you think otherwise
what did canguilhem say in 1991?
diseases is a departure from a norm established by biomedical authority
what is pilgrimage?
the process of going to a far place to understand a familiar place better
what can the biomedical authority lead people to believe?
that they are ill beyond them showing a contested illness
what do people travel further for?
attractiveness of cultural distant with belief from different cultures and professionals
what can the bridge between suffering and healing do?
the barrier of the language and others cultural views
within this contains the possibility of healing
what does art provoke?
a conversation and focuses us in a different way
what was frida kahlos mission in life?
to sustain the richness of difference in indigenous cultures
what happen to frida kahlo?
she was paralysed in an accident and now does inspiring artworks
what does the wounded deer tell us?
tells us about suffering as the arrows show the struggle as she has been hit repetitive and the forest shows the isolation
what does the memory, the heart tell us?
the husband had an afair with her sister her heart has been torn and is forever flowing into the ocean
she struggled as a kid and shows the pain that she felt when her loved ones torn her
what does the art work personal dimensions of suffering show us?
the alienation in 3 different
from yourself, your body and others
making strangers out of those you know well
what is suffering?
a state of distress that is a feeling and doesnt need to be under threat
your identity can become threatened
what can stop people from comunicating?
suffering
what is pain?
has a purpose
what happens if pain doesnt have a purpose?
then it becomes suffering
what can sadness provide us with?
composure and how someone contributed to the people as a communittee
what does a lotus flower mean?
it only grows in the mud but grows a beautiful flower which is a metaphor of suffering
how to heal from suffering?
learning how to speak and regain your voice
what story is promenint in suffering?
chaos
what is religious healing?
how healthy they are is dependant on how they face each trial and to have a good relationship
what is pure health in a religous sense?
holyness with jesus as its perfect manifestation and death was the ultimate healing
what is healing?
self confirming
what can healing be a resolving of?
emotional differculties such as traumas
what is intersectionality?
is a tool to theorize identity and is how we see ourselves and others see us from the outside perspective
what are our identities made of?
psycological make up with context of the atmosphere and enviroment and matured in such as familia, social and cultural elements
what can intersectionality either be?
enhance or diminish of our life chances according to our biographical attributes
what can intersectionality lead to?
entanglement of health
how do we think about others who come from diverse backgrounds?
we have to leave our stat of comforts
what is intersectional identity?
overlap with you who is on this earth together with everyone else
what is structural suffering?
where we see a systematic, widespread, predictable inequity of access to these processes that enhance and sustain well-being
what is the bhopal tradgety?
an example of structural suffering that has multiple system failure that lead to the release of toxic bhopal gas
the alarm didnt wake people up and they were all effected by the gas
what can degrees of ability have an impact on?
health and intersectional identity