HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ironman Triathlon, Long Shot, Brainstem
6 Feb 2017
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Lecture 3 historical and modern medical culture. Health care systems as forms of social and symbolic reality. To understand the paradigm and this particular article, we will look at a specific person and his story that was in the news. Case study art duerkson: 55 years old, not a runner, not much of a swimmer, never owned a bike. How we incorporate the folk, popular and professional options in our lives as we effect human agency related to our well being. Individuals differ in their conscious understanding and acceptance of social norms and in the degree to which they follow those norms in actual practice. These differences determine the different choices we make with regard to our possible illness and what we might do about it. How we think about our illness, how our families respond to us and our illness and how practitioners respond to us and our illness are all part of our social reality.
