HLTB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Medical History
5 Oct 2016
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Hltb50 lecture 2 how do we learn to live with illness . Uses personal anecdote to build a critical reflection. How personal experience can be the catalyst of critical reflection. 5 subsections: a space for humanities in illness . Disease: condition of the body reducible to biochemistry: biological . Illness and disease are always conjoined: patient vs. ill person. Patient: identity imposed upon a person by medical/health institution ( a total identity . Someone with aids: doesn"t give a sense of the biography as seen in illness earlier. Ill person: a patient only some of the time and remains many other things as well. : contains a biography beyond the patient, medical history vs. ill person"s story. Ill person"s story: where we invite the ill person to tell us: another narrative of illness that brings forward what the ill [person believes should be the area of focus, a poor historian , treatment vs. care.
