SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, K&H Bank
Document Summary
If there is a biological marker found for the disease" and people who claim that they have the disease but don"t have the marker; doctors would assume that there"s a psychological issue. Construction of language and meaning around illness related to medicalization and the sick role. Considered with how the boundaries of the boxes shift over time, certain/uncertainty/contested change based on time. If a person is healthy, have them monitor themselves; which slips them back to risk" of disease. Modernity there"s progress; but there"s unintended consequences. Illnesses are generating stories that threaten the sets of coherence; chaos" stories people with these illnesses that tell their own narratives. Somatization: conversion of a mental state (as depression or anxiety) into physical symptoms or impairment"; the communication of personal and interpersonal problems in a physical idioms of distress . Hysteria/ conversion disorder paralyses, blindness, numbness, tics, convulsions, choking symptoms. Briquet"s disorder (1824): localized pain, gastrointestinal problems, sexual problems (ed), conversion.
