HLTHAGE 1AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Gloria Steinem, Health Food Store, Massage
4 Mar 2013
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Disease: diagnosed by a physician; usually believed to be located in specific organs or systems in the body and curable through specific biomedical treatments. Illness: the personal experience of the person who acknowledges that he or she does not feel well. Sickness: refers to the social actions taken by a person as a result of illness or disease, such as taking medication, visiting the doctor, resting in bed, or staying away from work. Therefore, patients feel illness and act sickness while physicians diagnose disease. Everything people feel, say, think and do about their illness is culturally and socially mediated. Social-structural and cultural factors influence whether a person visits a chiropractor, naturopath masseuse, conventional medical doctor, or the health food store when feeling ill. Illustrated how illness, sickness and disease may be sociological or in this case, gendered determinations. Studied variations in identities constructed by breast cancer activists in the san francisco bay area.
