ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ethology, Sick Role, Schizophrenia
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Mark is one the men that participated in the government housing project. He very much appreciated the security that i allowed him to enjoy. He was extremely anxious about whether the project would continue. He is probably in the category of being pressured to articulate his pain but feeling that it does not appear rational to listeners. Cartesian tradition of opposition thinking: mind versus body. Post-cartesian view of pain interlocks the private and the public, individual and social, and the internal and external. The author tries to understand that manifestation of the pain symptoms, rather than trying to understand the symptoms. The discrediting of ill people"s capacities to speak rationally about their illness is a consequence of the biomedical tradition and its focus on symptoms. The legacy of the cartesian thinking comes through via this biomedical system. People learn to perform their pain in a way that is understood by other people and which allows them to acknowledge it.
