Module 1

Question 1

what are the four key storylines from Frank’s work?

Answer 1

chaos
quest
restitution
testimonial

Question 2

most illness stories have a combination of which narratives?

Answer 2

all four narratives, interwoven

Question 3

what are health narratives?

Answer 3

an active process drawing on personal and cultural resources.

Question 4

What is a restitution story?

Answer 4

yesterday I was healthy but today I am sick and tomorrow I will be better

Question 5

What is an example of a restitution story?

Answer 5

a common cold, sick then better

Question 6

what is the ideal narrative for a medical professional?

Answer 6

a restitution story

Question 7

what is the active character in restitution stories?

Answer 7

medication or the treatment modality. biomedicine is triumphant

Question 8

What are chaos stories?

Answer 8

the stories from people who have no distance from their illness in their life

Question 9

what kind of story development does chaos narrative follow?

Answer 9

and then…and then….

Question 10

what could a chaos story be compared to?

Answer 10

a whirlpool, these stories belong to a sufferer

Question 11

what are quest stories?

Answer 11

stories with a departure date, an initiation period and then a return - like stages of a journey

Question 12

how is the self constructed in a quest story?

Answer 12

constructed heroically and key characteristics are endurance and forbearance

Question 13

what is central in a quest story?

Answer 13

the experience of suffering is central to the initial quest

Question 14

what is an example of a quest story?

Answer 14

a person recovering from alcoholics anonymous

Question 15

what is the reading Hakanson and Ohlen about?

Answer 15

telling the stories of homeless people a Swedish community

Question 16

What are the three timelines in Hakanson and Ohlen?

Answer 16

falling ill
being ill
the future

Question 17

what are testimonial stories?

Answer 17

testimonial stories about a certain product

Question 18

what is the point of testimonial stories?

Answer 18

pressing you to witness and to believe excluding information that contradicts their key storyline

Question 19

what is illness described by Kleinman?

Answer 19

to become temporarily demoralised with ones world

Question 20

what is the nature of illness by helman?

Answer 20

illness can be thought of as a type of misfortune which brings on a subjective experience of physical and emotional change

Question 21

what is the language of distress?

Answer 21

acts as a bridge between the subjective experiences of impaired well being and social acknowledgment of them?

Question 22

what is health care pluralism?

Answer 22

kleinman suggests that there are multiple sources of expertise/knowledge of health care

Question 23

what are the 3 sectors of health care suggested by Kleinman?

Answer 23

lay, folk and professional

Question 24

what is hierarchy of resort?

Answer 24

the order in which people follow the sources of knowledge on health care

Question 25

what is contested illness/diagnosis?

Answer 25

when you disagree on the diagnosis of your 'illness'

Question 26

what is disease?

Answer 26

a departure from the norm established by biomedical authority

Question 27

what is health?

Answer 27

the capacity to become sick and to recover

Question 28

what is the reading Pfister about?

Answer 28

going on a pilgrimage to cure deafness only to find that is not something that needs to be cured and ins something that can be welcomed

Question 29

what are the 3 phases of alienation proposed by younger?

Answer 29

alienated from yourself alienated from others makes strangers out of those you know well

Question 30

what is suffering?

Answer 30

a state of distress brought about by an actual or perceived threat to the integrity or continued existence of the whole person

Question 31

what are the 3 phases of regaining voice?

Answer 31

mute suffering expressive suffering finding an authentic voice

Question 32

when does pain equal suffering?

Answer 32

when pain serves no purpose and appears to be enending

Question 33

when is pain not suffering?

Answer 33

when pain has a purpose

Question 34

what is the point of liggins 2018?

Answer 34

to argue that healing should trump recovery in terms of psychiatry

Question 35

what is an example of healing?

Answer 35

being demoralised but finding an authentic narrative

Question 36

what is the difference between recovery from and recovery in?

Answer 36

recovery from is removing symptoms and returning back to normal whereas recovery in is to live well despite having symptoms

Question 37

what is intersectionality?

Answer 37

the enhancement and diminution of our life chances according to our biographical attributes and how they overlap

Question 38

what is structural suffering?

Answer 38

where we see a systematic, widespread, predictable inequality of access to those processes that enhance and sustain wellbeing

Question 39

what is the social model of disability?

Answer 39

society as disabling - the manner in which circulating norms about what is the appropriate body shape, IQ etc

Question 40

what is the predicament model of disability ?

Answer 40

noting that disability has medical and material components to it as well as a disabling social world aspect to it too - the result we must resolve ourselves as best we can

Question 41

what is the reading Ellis. L 2018 on?

Answer 41

seeing the dwarfism disability from their perspective. and what taking photos in public does to them

Question 42

what is bio power?

Answer 42

a theory of how social power operates in societies. usually passively persuasive and unnoticeable

Question 43

what are the two major axes bio power works on?

Answer 43

at the level of large populations and at the level of the individual

Question 44

what are technologies of the self?

Answer 44

varied sets of practices that we take up to try to manage our lives well, to be responsible for our health , to be a 'good citizen

Question 45

in Esmond and Jette what is the example of bio power at the individual level?

Answer 45

using the Fitbit

Question 46

what were the outcomes of researching Fitbit use?

Answer 46

sense of self has merged with the Fitbit technology

Question 47

what are the three dominant epistemological views on departure from health?

Answer 47

biomedical phenomenological social

Question 48

what is biomedical epistemology?

Answer 48

derived from mind body dualism. | prioritises numerically expressed data

Question 49

what is a limitation to biomedical epistemology?

Answer 49

medically unexplained symptoms

Question 50

what is PCC?

Answer 50

person centred care

Question 51

what is person centred care?

Answer 51

a collaborative humanistic care style that includes the patient's context and involves the use of narrative, partnership and careful documentation

Question 52

what is RED?

Answer 52

recognise assumptions evaluate arguments draw conclusions