ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nonverbal Communication, Medicalization
27 Mar 2018
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Disease: in biomedical paradigm, refers to underlying pathology biologically defined. The illness seen in terms of a medical disorder. Illness: subjective experience of their symptoms (feeling unwell) Can include the manifestation of physical symptoms in addition to experiences of changes involving feelings. Ideas, values, language and nonverbal communication, symbolic behaviour. Sickness: process/path by which disease and illness are socialized. Encompasses the social an cultural constructions of a condition as defined by a given society. It is also the social role adopted by the individual. Sickness is also the social role adopted by an individual; a role that is negotiated within a given society. Aids and accusation: haiti and the geography of blame (1992) Paul farmer studies hiv/aids and cross-cultural constructions of the disease. Accusation #1: the north american construction of haitians as a high risk group. In 1983 the center of disease control designated certain groups as high risk for contracting/spreading hiv. Based upon pre-existing racist folk models of haitians.
