ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Blood Sugar, Reductionism, Medicalization
21 Apr 2016
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Tell us about how life problems are created, controlled, and made meaningful to the particular individual and what they are suffering from. Narratives are not statistic; individuals order and re-order their experiences over time: meanings change and details of their accountant change. Example: narrative you share with physician in a clinical setting will change from the narrative we share with our families and friends. Gives a sense of empowerment, agency, and to cast off stigmas. Reveals problems with treatment and identifies challenges in everyday life. Illness is a subjective experience: example: two individuals may both receive diagnosis of diabetes however; how they experience the diagnosis will change in the two individuals. Refers to how an individual perceives, experiences, and copes with a malady. Conceptual model: the condition of an individual has (diabetes, a bad heart), catches (a cold, flu), or is (diabetic, a blind person): example: alice.
