HLTB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Medical History
Document Summary
Frank being a good story : opens up with personal anecdote as a prompt to critical thinking, purpose of health humanities: to prime ourselves to experience inevitable state of illness, frank"s critical essay divided into 5 subsections: A space for humanities in illness , the humanities as therapeutic , storytelling as. Everyperson"s art of the everyday , narrative therapeutics: prompting, enhancing, Disease: condition of body reducible to biochemistry. Illness: an experience that involved a biography, a reflective consciousness, multiple relationships. Patient: identity imposed upon a person by medical/ health institutions. Ill person: a patient some of the time and remains many other things as well. Medical history: an understanding of the patient in terms of nature of disease. Treatment: service with monetary value" instrumental; requires technical expertise; defined boundary between bodies giving and receiving treatment. Care: gift ; consummatory ; involved emotions as well as cognition; relational nature of giver and receiver.
