SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Narrative, Mental Disorder, Soteriology
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Situating health, illness and disability more systematically in cultural context. Situating life course and illness processes in cultural context. Beginning to situate illness experience in structural context some considerations in service system context: situating health, illness and disability more systematically in cultural context. Refer to last lecture (cancer surgeon moral entrepreneur promoting a new moral perspective; argues that people can control cancer through self knowledge. People with an optimistic attitude more likely to survive: attitudes have fairly deep ideological base. Ideological base of attitudes towards illness and the ill: There might be over arching meta ideologies, and they organize their beliefs and attitudes in different ways. Text outlines competing ideologies based on disabilities. Medical model of disability assumes disability stems from impairments (ie, anomaly, defect, loss or other significant bodily function) or mental disorder. Social model assumes that disability stems solely from constraints built into the environment or social attitudes (i. e. prejudice, that leads to discrimination)
