[ANTHRO 134A] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (37 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
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The standard greeting by the physicians o diagnosis: fever and neutropenia = the shake and bake : the idea of personhood. (when is the person just a body, when is she a person, assuming the patient can handle all of the treatment and not asking. Illness is what you go into the doctor"s office with and disease is what you leave with o symptoms must be translated into signs o patients and providers often have different explanatory models and in order to best treat or care for a patient, providers must elicit and understand their explanatory model. Illness narratives: stories are one of the main ways people give meaning to the illness experience o give coherence to events o allow people to communicate what matters to them, narratives don"t just reflect an experience, they contribute to the experience in culturally structured ways. o ex: story of the girl with bipolar disorder.
