Transmition learning moduel 1 Flashcards
What are franks four illness stories
Chaos
Resitiution
Quest
Testiominal
What are Olson’s 3 story naratives
Resistance
Choice
Happiness
In franks illness stories what is a Chaos story
Self destructive whirlpool naratives which compound making them very had to listen to. Morally right to, hard to treat leading to loss of identity.
Impossible to redirect as there will always be annother negative
In franks illness stories what is a Restitution story
Uplifing postive naratives which we like to hear, tell and spread. Yesterday healthy, today sick, tommorow better again.
Can be hard to hear if you have a simlar situation but dont experiance the same result
The medicine is the main character
In franks illness stories what is a Quest story
Crucible story, personal development and self discovery through hardship. wants to help others through the simlar situations
In franks illness stories what is a testimonial story
Belivable, emotive and personal storys. Often leave out the truth to convince people of something. All 3 of franks other naratives can be testimonial.
In Olsons stories what is a Choice narative
They have started to migrate towards other habits. struggles with the why me feeling socially victimised. Belive that they are doing a good thing
In Olsons stories what is a Resistance narative
Use of fact to state that it isnt their fault. Based in biomedical reserch to justify their choices
In Olsons stories what is a Happiness narative
Use of a negative as a crutch, They would rather be stigmatised for smoking than for being unhappy, anxios. The pros of smoking outweights the cons.
what does chaos, resitiution, and quest naratives tend to leave out
Quest = the struggle
Chaos = the posibility of hope
Resitiutional = Metaphysical the why me
Give a definition of Disease
disease is th departure from the norm estabilished by biomedical authority
Give a definition of health
the capacity to become sick and recover. Not to become ‘normal’ but to acept a wide variety of new circumstances which become your ‘normal’
Give a definition of contested diagnosis
when others consider you unwell but you disagree. When medicine become political as their is more than 1 way to be ‘normal’
Give a definition of illness
what you have before you go to the doctors.
‘the night side of life, which we all must spend a spell in at somepoint’
Give a definition of hierarchies of resort
the layers of healthcare through which individuals seek relif from illness
Give a definition of the language of distress
a bridge between the subjective experiances of impaired well being and the social acknowlegement of this
Give a definition of healthcare pluralisum
a metaphore for the healthcare system. An ice burg, where medical prof are at the tip, but the bulk is made from everyday people in your life. people tend to mirgate through the layers to seek treatemnt, most of the time not resorting to medical intervention
Give a definition of healing
The regaining of voice. Narative, religous items and rituals can all contribute to healing via giving suffering purpose. Naratives give idea as to where people are, chaos = suffering, quest = moving forward and resitiution = helping to cure
What is the relationship between curing and healing
cureing doesnt equal healing. Curing is the removal of a illness. Healing goes far beyond this.
Give a definition of suffering
Suffering is a state of distress which is brough on by the acutal or percived threat to the integrity of the excistance of ones body.
- endless pain without purpose = suffering.
What are the three types of alienation created by those suffering
- alienation from self
- alienation from others
- making strangers from loved ones
What are common signs that someone has suffered
Suffering is a sign of maturing
Suffering can surve a higher purpose - common religous idea
healing = finding a path outwards from suffering
When does pain not count as suffering
When pain has a purpose then it is not suffering.
Give a definition of intersectonality
out idenitys dependant on our phycological make up. infulenced by conditions in how we were brought up, our development and maturity.
Give a definition of strucural suffering
systematic widespread inqueality of acess to processes whihc enchance and sustain welling
What is the social model of disability
deems socally disabling norms which circulate about what is appropriate. restricts the life chances of those who are outside the bubble.
What is the predicament model of diability
A complex idea, Disability had medical and material aspects, as well as a disabling social world impacts and identitys. Creates our ‘predicament’ which we must resolve.
Give a definition of medicalisation
When medicine encroces on aspects of life which were historically not medically recognized
Give a definition of biopower
biopower is increasing the model of social power used by critical reaserchers in health studies.
Its theory of how social power operates through the use of persuasion leading it to go almost unnoticed in life
Give a definition of a rhetoric
Persuasive power, utilizing language and symbols.
Baer, Singer and Susser 1997 definition of health
a political economy approach
access to and control over the basic material and nonmaterial resources that sustain and promote life at a high level of satisfaction
(a political economy approach)
What is the WHO definition of health
health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being snd not merely the absence if disease or infirmity
Kleinman 1988 definition of health
medical anthropology view
a set of common sense ideas which we have all been learning since childhood about our bodily processes, the way in which we monitor them, and the standard rhetorical devices which we use to describe them
(medical anthropology)
