Module one Flashcards
Chaos narratives
No distance from their illness in their life, ‘and then and then and then…’
Restitution narratives
Recently ill, ‘yesterday I was healthy, but today I am sick, but tomorrow I’ll be well again’
Testimonial narratives
Trying to engage you in the story line to get you to believe it but they often exclude things, Bad relationship with the truth
Quest narratives
A journey, clear departure data. Healing to grow and helping others along the way
Olsen at al narratives
Resistance, Choice, Happines
Resistance narratives
Draws on biometrical understanding of smoking being addictive (not my fault)
Choice narratives
Choosing lower frequency smoking and the use of nicotine patches. Exercising agency
Happiness narratives
Smoking as a crutch or as an antidote to anxiety which in turn allows them to succeed at being responsible for being happy
Illness
What we feel when we visit a doctor, physical and emotional changes, to become temporarily demoralised with one’s world
Disease
What we have upon diagnosis when leaving the doctor
Language of distress
Acts as a bridge between the subjective experiences of impaired wellbeing and social acknowledgement of them
Hierarchy of resort
Lay, folk and professional
Health care pluralism
Multiple sources of expertise/knowledge of health care
Contested diagnosis/illness
You think you’re ill, others don’t vice versa
Health
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Diagnosis
What you get when you visit the doctor
Healing
Regaining our voice, Transcending the suffering
Suffering
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
Intersectionality
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.
Structural suffering
A systematic, widespread, predictable inequality of access to those processes that enhance and sustain wellbeing (social suffering)
Social model of disability
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
Predicament model of disability
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
Biopower
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
Rhetoric
Persuasive power to an authority or higher power source
Patient centred care
A collaborative humanistic care style that includes the patient’s context and involves the use of narrative, partnership and documentation
Epistemology
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.
