HSS 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Buda, Paraplegia, System On A Chip

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 3103
• Professor: Alessandra Iozzo

Document Summary

Idea of homosexuality, originally in the dsm and by 1976 was taken off and no longer considered a disease. It was socially constructed and now we think of it differently. Girls = pink, and blue = boys. Mental health campaigns of trying to reduce stigma. Called the french disease by the italians, called the. Spanish disease by the french power of social construction. Power is used to contribute to, reinforce, or resist social constructions of illness disease and disability and the key goal of this course. You can think of it as a human rights issue. People with disabilities experience inequalities in education, and access to healthcare, political participation. People with disabilities are prone to violations of dignity, violence, abuse, and prejudice. Some people with disabilities are denied education. People with disabilities are not inevitably in need of a fix or dependent on others for care. The authors say that they are citizens with human rights.