Module one

Question 1

Chaos narratives

Answer 1

No distance from their illness in their life, ‘and then and then and then…’

Question 1

Restitution narratives

Answer 1

Recently ill, ‘yesterday I was healthy, but today I am sick, but tomorrow I’ll be well again’

Question 2

Testimonial narratives

Answer 2

Trying to engage you in the story line to get you to believe it but they often exclude things, Bad relationship with the truth

Question 3

Quest narratives

Answer 3

A journey, clear departure data. Healing to grow and helping others along the way

Question 4

Olsen at al narratives

Answer 4

Resistance, Choice, Happines

Question 5

Resistance narratives

Answer 5

Draws on biometrical understanding of smoking being addictive (not my fault)

Question 6

Choice narratives

Answer 6

Choosing lower frequency smoking and the use of nicotine patches. Exercising agency

Question 7

Happiness narratives

Answer 7

Smoking as a crutch or as an antidote to anxiety which in turn allows them to succeed at being responsible for being happy

Question 8

Illness

Answer 8

What we feel when we visit a doctor, physical and emotional changes, to become temporarily demoralised with one’s world

Question 9

Disease

Answer 9

What we have upon diagnosis when leaving the doctor

Question 10

Language of distress

Answer 10

Acts as a bridge between the subjective experiences of impaired wellbeing and social acknowledgement of them

Question 11

Hierarchy of resort

Answer 11

Lay, folk and professional

Question 12

Health care pluralism

Answer 12

Multiple sources of expertise/knowledge of health care

Question 13

Contested diagnosis/illness

Answer 13

You think you’re ill, others don’t vice versa

Question 14

Health

Answer 14

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Question 15

Diagnosis

Answer 15

What you get when you visit the doctor

Question 16

Healing

Answer 16

Regaining our voice, Transcending the suffering

Question 17

Suffering

Answer 17

Becoming alienated from yourself and others; making strangers out of those who know you well. A state of distress brought about by an actual or perceived threat to the integrity or continued existence of the whole person

Question 18

Intersectionality

Answer 18

Identities depend upon our psychological makeup and also the context in which we have developed and matured. The name we give to the enhancement and diminution of our life chances according to our biological attributes and how they can overlap, cancel and reinforce each other.

Question 19

Structural suffering

Answer 19

A systematic, widespread, predictable inequality of access to those processes that enhance and sustain wellbeing (social suffering)

Question 20

Social model of disability

Answer 20

Society as disabling, the manner in which circulating norms about what is an appropriate biological makeup restrict the life chances of people who demonstrate some perfectly ordinary form of difference from this norm

Question 21

Predicament model of disability

Answer 21

Offers more complex understanding of disability noting that it has medical and material components to it as well as a disabling social world aspect but it is also about identity

Question 22

Biopower

Answer 22

A theory of how social power operates in urbanised societies, not through the use of blatant physical force but persuasively and almost unnoticed through taken for granted knowledge and practices such as good health - ideals promoted by authorities sources and against which people measure and monitor their lives to try to create a ‘self’ in accordance with these desirable goals

Question 23

Rhetoric

Answer 23

Persuasive power to an authority or higher power source

Question 24

Patient centred care

Answer 24

A collaborative humanistic care style that includes the patient’s context and involves the use of narrative, partnership and documentation

Question 25

Epistemology

Answer 25

The study of how we come to know what we know about the world and the basis we use for determining the validity of that knowledge.