HLTH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter -1-2: Talcott Parsons, Mantra, Chemotherapy
11 Nov 2015
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Dramatic medical advances are exciting but they bring challenges and have raised concerns. Concerns over equity: not everyone has benefitted equally from improvements in health. Identifiable sections of society consistently have poorer health than the average. Therapeutic innovations: publicly funded costs within the universal health care system. Financial concerns and philosophical implications: why should doctors be trained on solving a problem that is avoidable. In 1973 susser used illness to refer to the subjective sense of feeling unwell, does not define a specific pathology. Used sickness to refer to socially and culturally held conceptions of health conditions, which in turn influence how the patient reacts. Illich describes social perceptions of disease modifies by the way the patient perceives and presents his symptoms. Disease implies a focus on pathological process that may or may not produce symptoms and that result in a patient"s illness.
