ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Arthur Kleinman, Sick Role, Shared Experience
18 Jan 2018
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Arthur kleinman introduces illness and disease definitions in the early 1980s = significant contribution. Arises in response to patient dissatisfaction with care. He recognizes a gap in the care continuum. His book is a critique of the american healthcare system and argues that biomedical reduces care of the patient to being a commodity. His focus on illness and disease models from an anthropologist perspective, he struggles with his identity. The term "illness" is "how the sick person and the members of the family or wider social network perceive, live with, and respond to symptoms and disability" (page 3) Illness brings us into the everyday reality of individuals themselves who must deal with these different life circumstances that are created by suffering, disability, and difficult of death. Illness, how we describe its experience, is always culturally shaped. Illness problems refers to the challenges that symptoms create in our lives. The language of complains are seen in both verbal and nonverbal ways.
