HST209H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Income Distribution, Blood Pressure, Ikea

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September 18th lecture notes hst209: skills for academic writing, you can book appointments with uc writing centre. In this assignment, you will explore how health and health issues are represented in the media, according to the different approaches to health discussed in the course. Income inequality model: as income inequality increases, so do other forms of inequality and health and wellbeing decrease, social cohesion decreases, economic wealth decreases and inequality increase. Identifying the burden of diseases: uses of epidemiology. Interactionism and health care: cloak of competence. Ikea chair: chair was made by robots, and so robots made by owner, or people on assembly line, no one has ownership of the chair in that long assembly line. Idea of expertise goes out the window: foucault, government of the body, medicine as governing the body, techniques of the self, why are thi(cid:374)gs the (cid:449)a(cid:455)s the(cid:455) a(cid:396)e a(cid:374)d (cid:449)ho(cid:859)s (cid:374)eeds a(cid:396)e se(cid:396)(cid:448)ed.