SOC244H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Class War, Decommodification, Health System
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To gain a understand the historical and political specificities of different health care systems by: understanding health systems as political institutions, understand the basics of comparative health care analysis. The body: vulnerable to physical decay, emotional distress and social harms: focusing on the body as a physical entity; it bleeds, stinks, it is a central point that connects hcs and social constructionism. Social constructionism is able to distinguish between subjective and objective. Classifying: produces language for both expressing human conditions and responses to them. Illness: an experience, individual and collective so what: a social and physical role, frames identity- survivorship ex: survived cancer etc you are beyond the illness. They are interconnected: you need to have a disease in the body/ mind in order to assume a label as a sick person (sickness) and through the sickness, they individual will experience (illness) The soc of health care reveals powerful paradoxes in modern societies:
