HPSC1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Medical Model, Destiny (Video Game), In Vitro Fertilisation
9 Jun 2018
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Lecture 14
Where are we
- 2 sorts of approaches in terms of disease:
Objectivist (aka naturalist)- when you call something a disease you are making a
commitment to there being something physiologically not working with this
person – something bad for you, something that makes your life worse about that
malfunction
Constructivist
WHO: Health as a well-being
- Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
- Does this confuse health and flourishing?
Bad difference vs mere difference
- The partitioning of human variation into the normal vs the abnormal has no firmer footing
than the partitioning into races. Diversity of function is a fact of biology. (Ron Amundson,
Against Normal Function)
- It is useful to distinguish between the level of performance of a function and the mode of
its performance. Functional mode is the manner in which a functional outcome or
performance is achieved. Performance level is the quantitative degree of the functional
performance, such as speed or the strength of a motion
- A non-typical but viable phenotype is not broken by its failure to comply with some
imagined blueprint for its species
The social model of disability
- Aims to separate the concept of disability from that of impairment
- Impairment is a biological condition, but a disability is a social condition
- Soiet’s ifleiilit toads the euieets of idiiduals ith impairments that
creates disability
The social model
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Document Summary
2 sorts of approaches in terms of disease: Objectivist (aka naturalist)- when you call something a disease you are making a commitment to there being something physiologically not working with this person something bad for you, something that makes your life worse about that malfunction. Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The partitioning of human variation into the normal vs the abnormal has no firmer footing than the partitioning into races. Diversity of function is a fact of biology. (ron amundson, It is useful to distinguish between the level of performance of a function and the mode of its performance. Functional mode is the manner in which a functional outcome or performance is achieved. Performance level is the quantitative degree of the functional performance, such as speed or the strength of a motion.
