HLTB41H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: George Herbert Mead, Sick Role, Talcott Parsons
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Chapter 10 constructing disability and living with illness. The dominant discourse in medicine is that the body is not simply biological phenomenon. Biological perspective fails to recognize that people may experience their bodies differently. The ways that people understand and experience their bodies are mediate through social, cultural and political processes. Interpretation of so called natural events, varies dramatically sometimes. Social and cultural differences as to what constitutes a healthy body or an ideal body. A sociological approach to the body is the notion that we both are and have a body. Peoples bodies are central to their self-identity and through bodies we experience the world. Individuals understanding of their bodies and their health beliefs. Lay health beliefs in people"s understandings of the body. Health beliefs may vary between different social and cultural or ethnic groups. Assumptions: people experience pain in a universal way, that pain can be measured objectively, and that we can compare magnitudes of pain between individuals.
