SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Reductionism, Headache, Sex Reassignment Surgery
11 Jan 2018
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Cultural meanings of health and illness - aren"t exclusively de ned as medical criteria. Social aspects of medical practices / systems. Social aspects of physical and mental illness. Dr. david gordon (1999) tips for better health. Don"t be poor & don"t have poor parents. Be able to go on a holiday and sun bathe. A state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or in nity . What is considered healthy and good for us changes across time & cultures. Roles and statuses of medical expert and patient: power dynamics, why to disempower through labeling, use the label cancer surviver" now to try and empower what was taken away. Dominican of the bio-medical model of health care. The impact of race, class and gender on health outcomes an access to health care d.
