SOC 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Symbolic Interactionism, Chronic Condition, Social Isolation
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Why and for whom: caregiving has almost nothing to do with medicine, practitioners are so engrossed into the technical aspect of diagnosing and treating that they fail to look at the illness aspect. They only focus on the disease/biology aspect: nurses and primary care docs do some contribution but they are also super limited in the amount of care they give towards illness. Example: a disease has a pathological cause such as a bacteria or a virus. It is a biological process that doctor tries to control thru medications and monitor over the course of care. However, illness is more generally any condition that causes one to not feel well, so it also includes symptoms caused by social interactions. Facilities for these diseases may be sub-par; they may be segregated from other health care areas or relegated to a poorer environment: disease: underlying pathology, biologically defined, practitioner"s perspective.
