HLTB50H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Medical History, Sleep Deprivation
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Chapter 1: being a good story by arthur w. frank. Then nothing seems as it was when we surveyed the hill as an abstract problem: task for humanities: to help people find interest, value, and pleasure in words, conceptual schema, images, and imaginations. It is not to claim that illness is, in broyard"s title word intoxicating but to elevate illness above the diminished condition implied by the unfortunate verb coping. Illness (experience) vs disease (condition of the body) A space for humanities in illness: disease can be reduced to biochemistry. Shakespeare-what the storyteller needs the listener to know about themselves, to appreciate that self: treatment vs care, treatment = service, monetary value as one can buy more attentive treatment. Requires technical expertise that can be one-dimensional. Treatment provider uses his or her body as an instrument. Involves a clearly defines boundary treatment between one who provides and one who is treated.
