HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Neurodiversity, Fibromyalgia, Hearing Loss
3 Feb 2017
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Les common, but highlights social construction of health and illness homosexualiy. Deafness is a culture to which i belong, same way that people grow up and speak spanish, i grew up speaking sign language . Problem is not a person"s deafness, rather hearing culture insisting deaf people have a deficiency . Autism may be unusual or common, but it may be another way of being, not an illness. Growing scepticism of medical experts and recognition that medicalization may be harmful. Homosexuality and conversion camps may be examples of how medicalization may be harmful. Conditions that sufferers struggle to have recognized by biomedical community. Despite distress experienced by individuals, medical community sees unclear etiology, vague symptoms, and complicated treatment. Reluctance to accept these conditions aso has impact on sufferers - medical diagnosis acts as. Performance, a special performance that you are allowed to engage in when you receive a diagnosis.
