COMM 321 Lecture 2: COMM 321 - Reading Notes - Chapter Two
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Comm 321 - reading notes - chapter two. Graying of america = 10,000 people a day are reaching 65 years old because of baby boomers. By 2065, the age of 65 and over will be more than the age of 18 and under. Public misunderstanding of healthy aging and primary self identification. Looks, feels, and personifies = individual and subjective. Biology of longevity and cultural role modeling = shape expectation. Stories help well-being, not autonomy and protectionism. The essential nature of health and illness narratives. The narrative turn is that scholars argued for recognizing story creation as basis for human understanding. Articulating experience in stories is innate human capacity such that narratives constitute thought that encompasses most human communication. Medicine is an understanding clinically related communication are stories of sickness, illness narratives, doctor"s stories, medical records, and family response. Characters= the people or beings that enact the events of the story.
