Health and Identity

Question 1

Define intersectionality

Answer 1

Intersectionality is the name we give to the enhancement and diminution of our life chances according to biographical attributes and how they can overlap, cancel and reinforce each other
Intersectionality is another way to entangle heath

Question 2

Define structural suffering

Answer 2

Systematic, widespread, predictable inequality of access to those processes that enhance and sustain wellbeing

Question 3

Define the social model of disability

Answer 3

Society as disabling - the manner in which circulating norms about what is appropriate for body shape, IQ, manner of moving, height etc entice the life chances of people who demonstrate some perfectly ordinary for of difference to this norm

Question 4

Define predicament model of disability

Answer 4

Offers a more complex understanding of disability noting that it has medical and material components to it as well as a disabling social world aspect, but it is also about identity - the result is our ‘predicament’ that we must resolve ourselves as best we can