Lecture 5: Health and Identity

Question 1

Define intersectionality

Answer 1

the way that aspects of our identity such as race, gender, ethnicity, religion, age, sexuality and occupation can overlap and affect our life chances

Question 2

Define structural suffering

Answer 2

When there is an inequality of access to processes that enhance and sustain wellbeing. In other words, it is when a “social structure” may inhibit a group from accessing their basic needs.

Question 3

What is the social model of disability?

Answer 3

circulating norms about what is an appropriate manner of moving (amongst other things) and how these restrict the life chances of people who demonstrate some perfectly ordinary form of difference from this norm

Question 4

What is the predicament model of disability?

Answer 4

seeing “disability” as a “predicament” that we must resolve ourselves as best we can

Question 5

What is medicalisation?

Answer 5

when medicine encroaches into aspects of life that were historically not recognised as being subject to the oversight and control of biomedical specialists