HSS 2321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Lawrence Leshan, Health Promotion, Neoliberalism
3 Apr 2018
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Disease, illness, and sickness are distinct concepts: disease is that which is diagnosed by a physician. Sickness, disease, and illness can be independent of one another: for example, a person can feel ill and act sick and yet not visit a physician. Figure 7. 1 depicts the relationships among illness, sickness, and disease: ailment, disorder, complaint, weakness, condition, infirmity. Figure 7. 1 also shows that illness, sickness, and disease are socially constructed experiences. Illnesses are not experienced or discussed in a social or cultural vacuum: examples, https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=rpu-ojmsc6u, https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=zsx0ha_ribg. In pink ribbons, inc. : breast cancer and the politics of philanthropy, king argues that breast cancer has become the model for the extensive growth of cause marketing among corporations in the neo-liberal modern states. Cultural variations in the experience of being ill. The experience of pain differs from culture to culture and, at times, so does what is viewed as illness and as health.
