Lecture 3: THE JOURNEYS WE MAKE

Question 1

What is disease?

Answer 1

What we have once we have been to the doctors and are on our way back home

Question 2

What is illness?

Answer 2

A type of misfortune which brings on a subjective experience of physical and emotional changes which are generally confirmed by other people

Question 3

What is contested diagnoses?

Answer 3

When you consider yourself ill but few agree you have a disease OR people think you have a disease but you consider yourself as one more variation of how to be normal

Question 4

What is hierarchies of resort?

Answer 4

The way people follow through the levels of health card depending on the severity of illness. Professionals are neither the first nor last

Question 5

What does the language of distress act as?

Answer 5

Acts as a bridge between the subjective experiences of impaired wellbeing and social acknowledgement of them (conveying it to others)

Question 6

What is the language of distress determined by?

Answer 6

Physiological, psychological and social meanings

Question 7

Language of distress is ….

Answer 7

Culturally distinctive - different cultures convey distress differently

Question 8

What is health care pluralism?

Answer 8

The fact that there is multiple sources of expertise/knowledge. 3 sectors are suggested (lay, folk and professional) with professional at the top of the iceberg and folk and lay beneath