Health Sciences 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Medicalization, Chemotherapy, Health Promotion
17 Dec 2016
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We often see health as being behavioral. Students in university drink more than other age brackets. General theoretical approaches to defining health (views are opposed but often coexist. Some variations outside the range are beneficial (e. g. better than 20/20 eyesight), some are not. The ones that are not good lead to disease: 3- knowledge of those facts about the body and physiology create clear distinctions between illness and health. Diagnosing a disease= determining bodily malfunction (fact) Constructivist and saying that this is bad: what is healthy and what is unhealthy depends on the culture, language, religion, housing, etc , 1- absolution in objectivism is an illusion. All of biological diseases have key cultural components, and therefore not objective. Disease, and the idea that they are bad are the product of social agreement, and not objectively true. Two same objective conditions can be seen differently between cultures (children born with two genital: a number of diseases are socially constructed:
