HSS 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Medical Diagnosis, Paraplegia, Medical Model

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 3103
• Professor: A L E X A N D R A I O Z Z O

Document Summary

Hss3103 experience of illness, impairment, and disability. Understanding that power is used to contribute to reinforce or resist social constructions of illness disease and disability is a key goal of this course. World report on disability why it is a human rights issue (p. 9: experience inequalities: education, health care, employment, and political participation, violation of dignity: violence abuse, prejudice, denied autonomy or independence: institutionalization. People with disabilities are not in need of a fix or in others for care. Citizens have rights don"t always see it as a problem. Ex. d/deaf (disability vs. culture: have the same health care needs as everybody else (preventative screening, assumptions can have serious health consequences (lack of sexual education, communicate directly with disabled patients not through elders, interpreters i. Condescendence is usually used with impaired people: terminology and language: patients vary, as does their radicalism i. ii. Disabled persons (disabled by society), persons with disabilities (person first)