Narrative, Vaccinations and Communicating Death Flashcards
“any cohesive and coherent story with an identifiable beginning, middle and end that provides information about scene, characters and conflict; raises unanswered questions or unresolved conflict; and provides solution” was said by who and about what?
Hinyard and Kreuter, about Narrative
Narratives are the basis of what form of media?
News reporting
Narratives are innately…
Human
2 ways of knowing
Paradigmatic and Narrative
Stories, Historical Accounts, Personal Experience, Faith and Religion - are all forms of
narrative knowledge
Procedural, empiracle and scientific messaging are all forms of
paradigmatic knowledge
Which form of knowledge is more important?
Neither! Both paradigmatic and narrative knowledge are important and necessary
3 dual processing models relevant to health communication
- Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM)
- Heuristic Systematic Model (HSM)
- Transportation-Imagery Model (TIM)
Who wrote “On Immunity”
Eula Biss, 2014
Metaphor, euphemism, and indirect language are all forms of…
Implicit Language
An explicit term for “death”
Terminal
5 Stages of Grief (DABDA)
- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance
The 5 stages of grief was developed by
Kubler Ross in 1969
The study of biological causes of aging
Biogerontology
Senescence
the process of aging due to cell’s loss of ability to divide and grow
the absence of a statistically detectable increase with organismal age in species mortality rate is called
Negligible Senescence / the absence of aging
the region at the end of a chromosome that consists of a repetitive DNA sequence is called
a telomere
What is the finite limit to telomeres?
50-70
Telomerase
an enzyme which can lengthen the telomere
SENS
Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence
Goal of SENS
science base, clinical work toward developing treatments that stop or drastically reduce aging
6 SENS Strategies
- Regular Exercise
- Hormone Supplementation
- Stem Cell Treatments
- Cell Ablation
- Gene Therapy
- Gene Manipulation
What is cell ablation?
removal of senescent cells
Booker’s Seven Basic Plots (O.R.Q.V.C.T.R)
- Overcoming the Monster
- Rags to Riches
- The Quest
- Voyage and Return
- Comedy
- Tragedy
- Rebirth
Hinyard and Kreuter’s 5 types of stories (O.I.F.S.C)
- Official Stories
- Invented Stories
- Firsthand experiential stories
- Secondhand Stories
- Culturally Common Stories
4 components of critical thinking ( I.C.A.S )
- Identify and challenge assumptions
- Challenge the importance of context
- Imagine and explore alternatives
- Lead to reflective skepticism
Central elaboration likelihood model
thoughtful consideration of the arguments of the message
Peripheral elaboration likelihood model
listener decides whether to agree with message based on other cues besides the strength of the arguments
Systemic processing
people think carefully about any available information when forming an opinion
heuristic model
attitudes are often formed in a more simple manner where previously learned knowledge structures are used as judgment rules
transportation imagery model
when people lose themselves in a story, their attitudes and intentions change to reflect that story