PSY 399 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Least Developed Countries, Thomas Luckmann, Gross National Income
12 Apr 2018
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Unintended consequences of purposive (or social) action. All social interventions have unintended consequences, some can be foreseen and prevented, others cannot be predicted. All social action needs to be routinely evaluated for. The art of medicine: four social theories of global health. unintended consequences like modification or termination of programmes. Coined by michel foucault to model the way political governance increasingly exerted its effects via the control of bodies and populations. By peter berger and thomas luckmann in the 1960s. The real world, no matter its material basis, is made over into socially and culturally legitimated ideas, practices, and things. Global health problems and programmes can take on culturally distinctive significance in different locations. Structural violence of deep poverty created conditions for tuberculosis to flourish and antibiotic resistance to develop. Social institutions that are developed to respond to suffering can make suffering worse. Hospital-based medical errors or failure of us. Veterans administration clinics to adequately diagnose and treat ptsd.
