HLTB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Medical Illustration, Chevrolet Hhr, Art Therapy
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What is a humanities based approach to health: humanities: cluster of disciplines that study how people process and document the human experience through creative and intellectual expression. Often distinguished from empirical approaches typical to the natural sciences. Disciplinary knowledges: epistemology: principles and theory of knowledge. Academic disciplines are defined by their ways of knowing the world, their subjects of study, what comprises valid evidence. Disciplines involve distinct and sometimes incompatible epistemological principles and values. Aids caused by hiv 1 and 2. Can occur in bovines, horses, sheep, felines, mammals: public health perspective: More than 25 mill people have died of aids: anthropological perspective: Social constructions of aids as plague or punishment against society by moralists who say it is a taboo. Systematic study of human social life and societies: hospital art, art therapy, health communication, medical illustration, post-conflict reconciliation. Health humanities as critical perspective: disciplinary counterbalance, medical history, giving voice to marginalized persons, experiences, perspectives, narratives of patient hood.
