ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Stomach Cancer, Asthma, Somatization
21 Apr 2016
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The notions that patients, families, and practitioners have about a specific illness episode to ignore them may be fatal. (kleinman 1988: 121) Interactions between patient and practitioner in order to get a broader understanding of the issues surrounding health: good way to explain why a condition or phenomenon is occurring, this is done through negotiation in the patient-practitioner relationship. A patient"s explanatory model: questions people ask themselves when they see themselves as ill practitioners should consider these when trying to diagnose a patient, 1. Why has this happened to me: 4. What would happen to me if nothing were done about it: 6. What are the likely effects on other people: loss of income, strains on family relationships, loss of employment, etc, 7. The only topic of conversation is health and illness: for step 7, william turned to psychotherapy, antidepressants and marriage counselling. He felt a significant change in his symptoms and psychological state.
