HLSC120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Alternative Medicine, Social Inequality, Anorexia Nervosa
Document Summary
Social construction of health and illness in diverse. Focus on pathology illness associated with fate, will of the gods, community healers provide health care. Fate set externalised control set position in society. Feudal agricultural labour based perception of community: geographical boundaries strong links - local. Perception of community: national identity international links. Rational thought science dominant social paradigms. Pathology based but now diseases curable panacea beginnings of state based health care systems. Some control over future positions in society not fixed. Industrial labour based increasing mechanisation: national identity international links, national identity international links. A discourse comprises the idea that contribute to making meaning about a topic, the ways in which we speak about it, as well as the types of action that are enabled by such thoughts and language. At any particular time, certain discourses will be dominant. These are the ideas and practices that (cid:272)arr(cid:455) (cid:373)ore (cid:449)eight or legiti(cid:373)a(cid:272)(cid:455) a(cid:374)d the(cid:455) (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)ed as (cid:858)do(cid:373)i(cid:374)a(cid:374)t dis(cid:272)ourses(cid:859).
