lecture 6 and 7 Flashcards
what is biopower
how ideas about how people should see themselves, trickles down from those in power to influence everyone’s way of self-regulating
biopower is persuasive and unnoticed
what was lecture 6 reading
the lady being a whiny stupid bitch complaining about fit bits
Social scrutiny of our step counts pressures us to goals that are unattainable for many, & ignores the elitist privilege of those whose jobs are flexible enough to allow them to reach enormous step counts
all around cruel optimism
what 2 axes does biopower operate on
at the level of large populations of people whom biomedicine constructs expert level knowledge
and at the level of the individual, they hear this knowledge and try to comply with it through technologies of the self
define technologies of the self
everyones way of self regulating. as biopower is more the idea of its influences on people to regulate themselves and each other.
what is epistemology
the branch of philosophy that studies how people decide which ideas are true
define phenomenological
experience of the patient, subjective, acknowledges suffering and healing and what the person is thinking/ deeper meanings of the illness to the person
what are some examples of biopower
contested diagonses
medical pluralism
gendered identities
the use of males in textbooks
biomedical epistemology
views mind and body as separate entities. the body is treated as if it is malfunctioning, just fixes that. the wider meaning of the illness is ignored
why is CAM and PCC on the rise
these services have a better holistic focus on the person and take into account their background and context
authors argue theres clashes between what
phenomenological models of unhealth and biomedical models of unhealth
define entanglement
a complicated or compromising relationship or situation”, and, “a situation or relationship that you are involved in and that is difficult to escape from”
what is social epistemology
looks at sickness as a socially mediated phenomenon, we are sick when others acknowledge it and carry out the associated practices.
