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Question 1

What is the World Health Organisation’s entangled definition of health?

Answer 1

“A state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and merely the absence of disease”

Question 2

What are the 4 narratives/stories of health of Arthur Frank?

Answer 2

Restitution stories, chaos stories, quest stories, testimonial stories

Question 3

What is a restitution story?

Answer 3

Associated with the recently ill and recovered, rather than chronically ill. Active character is medication/treatment and there is less emphasis on metaphysical components (change to self, identity and purpose)

Question 4

What are chaos stories?

Answer 4

Stories from those that have no distance from their illness and are consumed by it with no treatment until the self becomes broken

Question 5

What are quest stories?

Answer 5

Story has evidence of a initiation, period and return. Heroic construction of endurance in which one finds purpose in suffering.

Question 6

What are testimonial stories?

Answer 6

Stories that press someone to witness and believe healing, illness that exclude information that contradicts the storyline

Question 7

What are the parts of the temporal patterns in Hånkanson & Öhlén’s reading - ‘Illness narratives of people who are homeless’?

Answer 7

Falling ill, being ill, the future

Question 8

What illness narrative is described in Hånkanson & Öhlén’s reading - ‘Illness narratives of people who are homeless’?

Answer 8

Chaos stories

Question 9

What is the difference between illness and disease?

Answer 9

Illness is what we feel when we visit a doctor and disease is what we have when we leave the doctor

Question 10

What is meant by health care pluralism?

Answer 10

There are multiple sources of expertise and knowledge in health - lay, folk and professional

Question 11

What is meant by the hierarchy of resort?

Answer 11

The path people take through the multiple sources of health knowledge and expertise

Question 12

What is the conguilhem definition of health?

Answer 12

The capacity to become sick and recover, the capacity to continue life rather than just return to ‘normal.’

Question 13

How is pilgrimage described in Pfitser’s article ‘Predicament and Pilgramage: Hearing families of Deaf children in Mexico City.’?

Answer 13

Parents undertake journey from disillusionment with biomedical approach to deafness to relief at bilingual schools

Question 14

What is culturality, as described in Pfitser’s reading - ‘Predicament and Pilgramage: Hearing families of Deaf children in Mexico City.’?

Answer 14

The characteristics of a community that has shared values and characteristics/experiences. Families joined deaf and signing community

Question 15

What are the 3 phases of the alienation of suffering?

Answer 15

alienation from self, alienation from others, making strangers out of those you know

Question 16

What is suffering?

Answer 16

A state of distress brought about by an actual or perceived threat to the integrity or continued existence of the whole body/self

Question 17

What is the difference between pain and suffering?

Answer 17

If pain has a purpose then it is not suffering and requires no healing

Question 18

What is intersectionality?

Answer 18

The enhancement and diminution of life chances due to our psychological makeup and the context in which we have developed culturally and socially.

Question 19

What is structural suffering?

Answer 19

The systematic, widespread, predictable inequality of access to those processes that enhance and sustain wellbeing.

Question 20

What is the social model of disability?

Answer 20

The manner in which social norms restrict the chances of those who are different from the norms but are otherwise normal

Question 21

What is the predicament model of disability?

Answer 21

Explains the medical and social aspects that are disabling. Disability is a predicament that we must find out a way to personally resolve

Question 22

What is medicalisation?

Answer 22

When medicine encroaches onto aspects of life that were not historically recognised as needing biomedical oversight

Question 23

What are gaze theories?

Answer 23

Gaze in gender, race, ability etc. define, categorise and devalue ‘abnormal’ bodies. external identity is synonymous with the objectified body, disregarding all other aspects of humanity

Question 24

What is biopower?

Answer 24

The theory that social power due to wealth, influence, etc. operates via health knowledge that aims to control society.

Question 25

What are the the 2 levels of biopower?

Answer 25

Health statistics & expert biomedical knowledge, individuals who try to comply with authority via technologies of the self

Question 26

What are technologies of the self?

Answer 26

Varied practices that we engage in to to try and manage our lives well as good, responsible, healthy cities citizens.

Question 27

What is mind body dualism?

Answer 27

The reduction of the body into mind and physcial body components, rather than acknowledging the components

Question 28

What are the 3 dominants views on the departure from health as described in Salamonsen’s reading - ‘Epistemological challenges in contemporary Western Healthcare systems exemplified by people’s widespread use of contemporary and alternative medicine’?

Answer 28

Biomedical, phenomenological and social

Question 29

What is the departure from health associated with the biomecial view in Salamonsen’s reading - ‘Epistemological challenges in contemporary Western Healthcare systems exemplified by people’s widespread use of contemporary and alternative medicine’?

Answer 29

Disease - the scientific characterisation of illness

Question 30

What is the departure from health associated with the phenomenological view in Salamonsen’s reading - ‘Epistemological challenges in contemporary Western Healthcare systems exemplified by people’s widespread use of contemporary and alternative medicine’?

Answer 30

Illness - individual perspective and experience

Question 31

What is the departure from health discussed in the social view in Salamonsen’s reading - ‘Epistemological challenges in contemporary Western Healthcare systems exemplified by people’s widespread use of contemporary and alternative medicine’?

Answer 31

Sickness - a combined social and personal experience

Question 32

What does the RED model acronym stand for?

Answer 32

Recognise assumptions, Evaluate arguments, Draw conclusions

Question 33

What are the components of Bloom’s Taxonomy, from top to the bottom of the pyramid?

Answer 33

Create, evaluate, analyse, apply, understand, remember

Question 34

What is epistemology?

Answer 34

The theory of knowledge, and the way in which we validate knowledge