KIN 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientism, Victim Blaming, Reductionism
14 Apr 2016
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Separate entities: soul can go to heaven while body stays behind (christianity, brain different from mind/soul. Health interventions - focus on body: even if unconscious - can use practice to assess bodily function of individual. Mind is unimportant to health: machine metaphor. Machine made up of discrete parts: breakdown = disease/illness, practitioners work to repair bodily parts, technological imperative. Reduce symptoms to physical workings of body. Can use tests/machines to asses cause of illness: doctrine of specific etiology. Disease assumed to originate from specific and knowable causes . Magic bullet" - specific and perfect way to treat an illness/restore the body to health: how to cure illness/disease. Objectification of medical scientism: seeing person in ways that aren"t ideal, ignore importance of mind. Reductionism and biological determinism: downplays role of social factors. Sociological definition of health: health and illness are socially determined. Focus on patterns of social and societal explanations. Thursday, april 14, y: socioeconomic status, income, education.
