Health Sciences 3630F/G Lecture 3: notes
10 Oct 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
My body didn"t have a heart attack, i did . Time: in illness: clock time seen to be closing in on us, becomes structured around medicines, pain, illness regimes, can also seem never-ending when confined, may also seem to be passing too quickly. In health: space can feel unbounded: feeling more in control. In illness: space can feel constrained or even frozen: bodily space can be seen as being violated through technologies, rendering the previously hidden visible. Morality: morality about the body linked with control. Individual: societal, political (e. g. of hiv, stds, hpv, what are some other factors that inform our moral positions or ideas about the body? . Terminology is essential in constructing illness identities: often uses violent language, these terms are normalized through science and education, e. g. T cells attack/invade/kill cancer cell: examples, sabotage , abandonment , revolting , at war with itself , under fire or attack , protected , defeated .
