HLTHAGE 1AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-10: Health Equity, Cardiac Surgery, Pearson Plc
28 Mar 2016
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Health and aging 1aa3 introducion to health studies [readings] Conrad and barker 2010 the social construcion of illness: key insights and policy implicaions: The social construcion of illness is a major research perspecive in medical sociology. This aricle traces the roots of this perspecive and presents three overarching construcionist indings. First, some illnesses are paricularly embedded with cultural meaning. Which is not directly derived from the nature of the condiion that shapes how society responds to those alicted and inluences the experience of that illness. Second, all illnesses are socially constructed at the experienial level, based on how individuals come to understand and live with their illness. Third, medical knowledge about illness and disease is not necessarily given by nature but is constructed and developed by claims-makers and interested paries. Social construcionism provides an important counterpoint to medicine"s largely determinisic approaches to disease and illness, and it can help us broaden policy deliberaions and decisions.
