HLSC 2P21 Chapter 11: pre-readings

• School: Brock University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HLSC 2P21
• Professor: Terrance Wade

Document Summary

The sociological view of health and illness: individuals occupy statuses in which they carry out tasks and preform various roles. & activities: illness can disrupt normal roles of individuals. Surrenders: narrative reconstruction: when talking about a person"s illness, responders build stories linking disease to past stressful events, illness narrative: the emergence of new perspective of sel based on ones illness. Wednesday, november 16, 2016: 3 processes by which the new self will emerge: Self-consciously become what they were: remission society: people are never perceived of as cured from illness even if they have overcome it. The normal who are wise to the stigmatized person and their condition: examples: mental illness, hiv and cancer, 6 dimensions of stigma: Concealable: extent to which other can see the stigma. Disruptiveness: degree to which the stigma interrupts social interactions. Course of the stigma: indicating whether it becomes more prominent over time. Aesthetics: other peoples reactions to the stigma.