Lecture 5: Health and identity Flashcards
What is structural suffering?
Suffering can also be experienced at a wide and systematic level by large populations of people (not only as individuals) - this is called structural suffering
What is intersectionality?
Intersectionality: a tool to theorize identity
Is the Bhopal an example of structural suffering?
YES
Bhopal is also an example of Structural Suffering (or
systemic violence) where we see a systematic, widespread, predictable inequality of access to those processes that enhance and sustain wellbeing
What is the social model of disability?
Social Model of Disability - Society as disabling –
the manner in which circulating norms about
what is an appropriate body shape, IQ, manner
of moving, height etc restrict the life chances of
people who demonstrate some perfectly
ordinary form of difference from this norm
What is the predicament model of disability?
The Predicament model of Disability (Shakespeare) 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
While being born in C21 makes for better health outcomes when dealing with serious impairments, some types of medical technologies in the past have been
downright cruel and impaired the lives of those with disabilities
What story can this be related to?
a senseless restitution narrative from which there could be no escape
basically they think they are helping with the treatment but it is actually just causing more harm and creating a senseless path of treatment with no benefits
What is medicalisation?
when medicine encroaches onto aspects of life that were historically not recognized as being subject to the oversight and control of biomedical specialists ie birthing, degrees of abilities & impairments, queerness/homosexualities, deafness, older age, menopause
