ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture 2: Illness experience
19 Jul 2016
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Illness experience: meanings of illness and disease in anthropological terms (medical anthropology . History of illness and disease models: late1960s to early 1970s, needed to view disease and illness as two separate constructs. How the sick person and the members of the family or wider social network perceive, live with, and respond to symptoms and disability (kleinman, 3) (will come up on first assessment and midterm) Illness (social phenomenon) is created through ongoing discourse with other. Illness experiences affect our understanding of health and illness. Alice alcot these stages are present in her illness narrative: 1. Pain, discomfort or general unease or disruption in bodily function. B. cognitive recognition that illness is present. C. emotional response of concern about the social implications of illness: 2. Individual begins to cease some of their normal activities to account for what they are experiencing: 3. Culture can affect how people treat themselves age, gender, ethnicity, etc: 4.
