SOC239H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter CONR: Susan Sontag, Social Constructionism, Biomedicine

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Social construction of illness: key insights and policy implications. The key findings of social constructionism: cultural meanings of illness, cultural analysts point out that illnesses also may have metaphorical connotations, ex. In this regard, all illnesses are not the same. Because the attributes that are deemed a disability, and the very meaning of being disabled, very across time and space, disability cannot (cid:271)e redu(cid:272)ed to a (cid:373)ere (cid:271)iologi(cid:272)al pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s lo(cid:272)ated i(cid:374) a(cid:374) i(cid:374)dividual"s (cid:271)ody: ex. Stigmatized illnesses can make an illness much more difficult to treat and manage: ex. If an illness such as epilepsy or hiv has a powerful stigma, you can make people less likely to seek treatment for fear of being mistreated by healthcare providers and publicly associated with a tainted condition.

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