HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Franchising, Iatrogenesis, Discards
12 Oct 2017
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Is health a commodity that can/ should be bought/ sold? (is it a human right?) Who has responsibility for health- individual, state, physicians? . How can we explain the rise of health consumerism? that play roles) Patients who must submit to md"s authority ( to wait, top down relationship) Client who hire md (not dissimilar; like a lawyer, they have expertise) Consumer who work in partnership with md (no longer waiting on physician , this is what i want how can you deliver it) Proactive ( you do something about it) Empowered ( they meet at equals, but you are the expert on your own body and the doctor is the expert of medical) Transformation both praised and criticized (use client and consumer not patient) 1960s onward--> tendency to question traditional authority, professional expertise Wave in society, where traditional authority gets attacked. Feminism critiques male control of bodies reproduction, scientific notions of female inferiority. everything , woman"s bodies were imperfections. )
