HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Menopause
5 Jan 2017
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What leads to good health and bad health is a matter of choice. But out health is fashioned by our choices. And they make us better through a variety of medical technologies. But this is a very constraining idea of what happens with illness. We think of it as pills and tablets and so on. Some things may or may not be considered disease or wrong. We"ve now framed this as a health problem. We"ve taken a natural biological process that happens with all women in all time and is now wrong. Personal, cultural, social, political, and economic factors all contribute to our definitions of health, medicine and wellness. Health studies as a discipline seeks to understand how these concepts are. Health studies as a discipline seeks to understand how these concepts are conceived and which factors influence the way we understand them. Focus on overall wellbeing rather than an emphasis on the physical functioning of the body.
