Lectures 1-3

Question 1

This is defined as educating the emotions as well as the intellect, enhancing compassion as well as critical thinking; encouraging engagement in public and/or professional life

Answer 1

Humanities (from Cole Carlin and Carson)

Question 2

Whose definition of Medical Humanities is: ‘a series of intersections, exchanges and entanglements between biomedical sciences, the arts, the humanities and the social sciences.

Answer 2

Whitehead and Woods

Question 3

Whose definition of Medical Humanities is: ‘a bridge between science and [lived] experience, cultivates key virtues in health professionals via reflective, interpretive and reflexive practices. Promotes healthcare as a learned profession rather than technical competency alone.

Answer 3

Cole Carlin and Carson

Question 4

Whose definition of health is this: ‘a state of complete physical, mental, social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’

Answer 4

WHO

Question 5

Whose definition of health is this: ‘access to and control over the basic material and nonmaterial resources that sustain and promote life at a higher level of satisfaction’

Answer 5

Baer Singer and Susser

Question 6

What approach does Baer, Singer and Susser have in terms of defining health?

Answer 6

Political economy approach

Question 7

Whose definition of health is this: ‘a set of common sense ideas which we have all been learning since childhood about our bodily processes, the way in which we monitor them and the standard rhetorical devices which we use to describe them’

Answer 7

Kleinman

Question 8

What approach does Kleinman have in term of defining health?

Answer 8

Medical anthropology- interpretive approach

Question 9

This is the narrative where plot line is: ‘yesterday I was healthy. but today I am sick, but tomorrow I will be well again.

Answer 9

Restitution narratives

Question 10

This narrative often promotes biomedical intervention. It has biomedicine as the hero of the story.

Answer 10

Restitution narrative

Question 11

These stories/narratives are often from people who have no distance from their illness in their life, rather they are consumed by it.

Answer 11

Chaos narratives

Question 12

The plot line of this narrative usually goes: ‘and then… and then… and then’

Answer 12

Chaos narratives

Question 13

This story line provides a departure date, initiation period, and then a return.

Answer 13

Quest narratives

Question 14

This narrative has the self constructed heroically and key characteristics of this story is the endurance and forbearance by the teller.

Answer 14

Quest narratives

Question 15

The experience of what is central to the initial quest experience. Because it is by learning the integrity of this that the questing hero encounters the reason for their trials.

Answer 15

Suffering

Question 16

These stories press you to witness and to believe the narrative and often excludes information that contradicts their key story line.

Answer 16

Testimonial narratives

Question 17

What are the four key storylines from Frank’s (2013) work?

Answer 17

Chaos, quest, restitution and testimony

Question 18

What part of reality do restitution stories leave out?

Answer 18

The metaphysical aspect of illness

Question 19

Whose concept of illness is this: ‘illness is what we feel when we go to visit doctor and disease is what we have after we have been to the doctor’s office.’

Answer 19

Cassell

Question 20

Whose concept of illness is this: ‘illness can be thought of as a type of misfortune which brings on a subjective experience of physical and emotional changes which are generally confirmed by other people’

Answer 20

Helman

Question 21

Whose concept of illness is this: ‘to become temporarily demoralised with one’s world’

Answer 21

Kleinman

Question 22

This acts as a bridge between the subjective experiences of impaired well being and social acknowledgement of them.

Answer 22

Language of distress

Question 23

Whose idea was it that there are multiple sources of expertise/knowledge of healthcare? (healthcare pluralism)

Answer 23

Kleinman

Question 24

What are the 3 sectors of healthcare according to Kleinman?

Answer 24

Lay, folk, and professional

Question 25

This is an idea that expresses that there are multiple sources of expertise/knowledge of healthcare.

Answer 25

Healthcare pluralism

Question 26

This is when others think that you have a disease but you yourself consider you are just one more variation of how to be normal.

Answer 26

Contested illness/diagnosis

Question 27

These show the multidirectional flow of interpretive work in ‘doing’ health and illness and it gets political.

Answer 27

Contested illness/diagnosis

Question 28

‘Disease is a departure from the norm established by biomedical authority’.

Answer 28

Canguilhem’s definition of health

Question 29

‘What characterises the health is the possibility of transcending the norm which defines the momentary normal, the possibility of tolerating infractions of the habitual norm and instituting new norms in new situations’

Answer 29

Canguilhem’s definition of health

Question 30

This is the process of going to a far place to understand a familiar place better.

Answer 30

Pilgrimage

Question 31

What is the disadvantage of seeking help from a local healer?

Answer 31

They know your weaknesses - it makes the client vulnerable to the healer

Question 32

What other reasons are there for people wanting to travel further for treatment?

Answer 32

To access high tech biomedicine, for cheaper treatment/kinder older style

Question 33

This works to describe the impact of illness in our lives. As well as help us conceptualise the political, emotional, and cognitive distances we must cover to understand another’s experience.

Answer 33

Metaphor of a journey / Pilgrimage