Women's Studies 2244 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Alternative Medicine, Health Promotion, Occupational Safety And Health

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2244
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

Healthism and the medicalization of everyday life crawford. Introduction: holistic health and self-care, holistic: diverse challenge to orthodox medicine, non-allopathic healers and their clients and assemblage of adherents who have adopted many of its principles into health and philosophy, portrayed as way of being. Incorporates a religious view: self-care: also, self-help; little attention to developing alternative healing methods, often challenge medical practitioners. Healthism and the new health consciousness: healthism defined here as the preoccupations with personal health as primary focus, goal attainable through modification of lifestyles, without therapeutic help, healthism treats ind. Behaviour, attitudes, and emotions as relevant symptoms needing attention: health consciousness is inclusive that what is described here as healthism, medicine embodies the most fundamental propositions and characteristics of this culture. The impact of medical practice: medical concepts are reinforced by a therapeutic practice which isolates individual, with anatomy being discovered, understanding of disease turned towards being.