DHD 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Symbolic Interactionism, Labeling Theory, Human Behavior
20 Feb 2018
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Multiple ways to study, understand and approach health. Each definition reflects different historical values and understandings of the body and society. Shaped by humans, through language. (named, defined, and codified - 30 (blaxter reading) Meanings are not inside things, they are negotiated by people and interactions across people. Human being select among a universe of meanings (interpretation) What they define as disease and how they do it. Epidemiologic transition (34)- focuses on chronic illness in u. s developed countries. Deviance is not about bodily presentation or behavior. It is a label that others stick to you and how they react onceit is affixed. Medicine expands into other areas for control- imperialism. Health social movements (patient advocacy) role of the internet. Experience of impaired/disabled people in ecological and social context. Disability is produced by society and social actions. Disability as the result of social production. Lifestyle behaviors. (lack of exercise, high fat diets) Society is producing disability, the process is ongoing.
