Lectures 1-3 Flashcards
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
Humanities (from Cole Carlin and Carson)
Whose definition of Medical Humanities is: ‘a series of intersections, exchanges and entanglements between biomedical sciences, the arts, the humanities and the social sciences.
Whitehead and Woods
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.
Cole Carlin and Carson
Whose definition of health is this: ‘a state of complete physical, mental, social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’
WHO
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’
Baer Singer and Susser
What approach does Baer, Singer and Susser have in terms of defining health?
Political economy approach
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’
Kleinman
What approach does Kleinman have in term of defining health?
Medical anthropology- interpretive approach
This is the narrative where plot line is: ‘yesterday I was healthy. but today I am sick, but tomorrow I will be well again.
Restitution narratives
This narrative often promotes biomedical intervention. It has biomedicine as the hero of the story.
Restitution narrative
These stories/narratives are often from people who have no distance from their illness in their life, rather they are consumed by it.
Chaos narratives
The plot line of this narrative usually goes: ‘and then… and then… and then’
Chaos narratives
This story line provides a departure date, initiation period, and then a return.
Quest narratives
This narrative has the self constructed heroically and key characteristics of this story is the endurance and forbearance by the teller.
Quest narratives
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.
Suffering
These stories press you to witness and to believe the narrative and often excludes information that contradicts their key story line.
Testimonial narratives
What are the four key storylines from Frank’s (2013) work?
Chaos, quest, restitution and testimony
What part of reality do restitution stories leave out?
The metaphysical aspect of illness
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.’
Cassell
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’
Helman
Whose concept of illness is this: ‘to become temporarily demoralised with one’s world’
Kleinman
This acts as a bridge between the subjective experiences of impaired well being and social acknowledgement of them.
Language of distress
Whose idea was it that there are multiple sources of expertise/knowledge of healthcare? (healthcare pluralism)
Kleinman
What are the 3 sectors of healthcare according to Kleinman?
Lay, folk, and professional
This is an idea that expresses that there are multiple sources of expertise/knowledge of healthcare.
Healthcare pluralism
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.
Contested illness/diagnosis
These show the multidirectional flow of interpretive work in ‘doing’ health and illness and it gets political.
Contested illness/diagnosis
‘Disease is a departure from the norm established by biomedical authority’.
Canguilhem’s definition of health
‘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’
Canguilhem’s definition of health
This is the process of going to a far place to understand a familiar place better.
Pilgrimage
What is the disadvantage of seeking help from a local healer?
They know your weaknesses - it makes the client vulnerable to the healer
What other reasons are there for people wanting to travel further for treatment?
To access high tech biomedicine, for cheaper treatment/kinder older style
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.
Metaphor of a journey / Pilgrimage
