HLTH 334 Study Guide - Final Guide: Discourse Analysis, Panopticon, Ethnography

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH 334
• Professor: Adam Ali

Document Summary

Key features of the class: sociocultural, qualitative, theoretical, critical, critical, social justice/transformation. Course concepts: discourse and power, reflexivity, medicalization, morality, neo-liberalism, scientific racism, colonialism. Intersexuality: medical/social models of disability, orientalism, capitalism/consumerism, bio-politics. Power: power is not about domination, power is relational, and is considered productive, rather than repressive, discourse and power come together to constitute knowledge/truth, when power is linked to knowledge, it assumes the authority of truth . Discourse analysis: how: why do some discourses emerge as more powerful, more truthful or more common-sense than others, trace how knowledge: Is constructed: who constructs it, who benefits from it/who does not. Identify multiple truths , shaped by power relations: subjugated knowledges. Identify what can and cannot be said, written, thought, and practiced; by whom and where. Hlth 334 lecture 2: reflectivity and health. Objectives: tackle the boylorn reading on race & reflexivity, define and discuss reflexivity.