NURS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Symbolic Power, Canada Health Act, Essentialism
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The canadian charter of rights and freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably jusiied in a free and democraic society. (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communicaion; Racializaion of health care seings (democraic racism in canada-insituional racism) Racializaion assumes that race" is the primary, natural, and neutral means of categorizaion, and that groups are disinct also in behavioural characterisics, which result from their race" (ahmad as cited in anderson, 2006, p. 10). Conlaion of culture, ethnicity, and race (sdh) Is a social and cultural construcion (inferiors, subalterns) Is a process that afect the everyday lives and interacions with nurses and other health care providers. Not a theoreical issue but a pragmaic one that posiions people and their health. Is not a neutral process: impact on people"s lives and health status.
