Journeys we make Flashcards
What is Cassell’s term for the nature of illness?
Illness is an interpretive event, we feel illness when we go to the doctor and disease is what we have when we go back home, cultural knowledge, important, complex
What is Helman’s term for the nature of illness?
Illness thought of as a misfortune which brings on a subjective experience of physical and emotional changes which are generally confirmed by other people, need validation
What is Kleinman’s term for the nature of illness?
Illness is when we become temporarily demoralised with ones world, when we consider we’re ill we become demoralised
What is the language of distress?
Acts as a bridge between the subjective experience of impaired well being/how we feel and the social acknowledgment of them. Awareness is a result of acknowledging psychological and physical change, spiritual, cultural and environmental knowledge
What is the health care pluralism?
Need to realise there are more sectors than just professional care, for example cultural healing traditions, people follow through them in a hierarchy of resort to seek relief from illness with professionals neither first nor last
What is contested illness/diagnosis?
Shows the multidirectional directional flow of interpretive work in doing health and illness and it gets political
How do you define health politically?
Health is the capacity to become sick and then recover, it is contextually dependent and not at all about becoming normal it is the capacity to continue your life with invariable circumstances that will become normal to you, examples of restitution story
What is the journey of pilgrimage to recover?
The process of going to a far place to try understand a familiar place, deafness is an example of contested illness/diagnosis - deaf is seen to be ‘tragic’ and in need of fixing instead of a cultural identity and being members of a community
Why is distance sometimes better?
Some people prefer an actual rather than a metaphorical journey - the allure of culturally distant, seeking help from someone well known may be something people want to avoid as they don’t want their local community to find out
