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Health Citizenry
the full range of health-related activities in which people participate and interact with one another. Can be experts and professionals or patients and health consumers
Health Narrative
emphasizes stories as a way of learning
Homo narrans
people by nature are storytellers. Our communication takes the form of narratives, stories that we use to explain and exemplify our ideas, and to recount and account for our decisions.
Engaging in "Webster-work"
strategically hyphenating words to re-consider their meanings
"Medicalizing" aspects of human development
subject to the expertise of physicians and other health professionals. ex:fertilization, pregnancy and birth, and lifestyle issues.
Primary Care Physicians
gatekeepers to specialized care
Managed Care
an arrangement in which an insuring organization accepts the risk for providing a defined set of health services, using an identified set of providers, for a specified population in return for a fixed payment rather than a fee for service. ex: HMOs PPOs
Public Arena
including media provides an occsion fro health-related information sharing, policy-making, and advances in technology
Narrative Reasoning
designed to understand the whole by integrating parts of our experience, often in ways we cannot 'prove' but know intuitively
Logical Reasoning
based on structured observations that 'prove' what we experience
Interpersonal Layer of Meaning
focuses on the dynamics of style, intimacy, emotion, and roles played out in human interactions surrounding AIDs
Dys-appearance
experience a limit on vital functioning but also a personal disturbance that tends to make us feel self-consciousness. away or apart
Embodiment
maybe conscious of the body, looking at it, sensing it
Stories of embodiment and disembodiment
after exercising one may feel a sense of embodiment after a good workout, but feel disembodied by sensations of chronic pain from a previous injury
operate everyday, habitually, and often unconsciously
Allopathic Medicine
modern, biomedicine, or conventional medicine
Lia Lee's Experience with the US healthcare system
Hmong refugees from Laos
stark contrasts in two cultures' belief systems about illness and treatment
epileptic or her spirit left and she fell
Ideological Layer of Meaning
the philosophical 'truths' about AIDS
Institutional/Professional Layer of Meaning
focuses on the meanings about AIDs that are held and communicated by health care organizations, federal and state governments, HMOs, and individuals in professions such as medicine nursing, and social services.
Ethnocultural/Familial Layer of Meaning
considers the meaning of AIDS that derive from the cultural traditions, styles, customs, rituals, and values ofeveryday living, expression, and social interaction, which often are articulated or learned through the family.
Bio-power
suggests we are all imprisoned within a field of bio-power even as we sit alone
Stigma
it is percieves to be the bearer's responsibility-contracted through voluntary and avoidable behaviors
it is assoc. with illness and conditions that are unalterable, degenerative, and fatal
it is assoc. with conditions that are perceived to be contagious
it is readily apparent to others and is perceived as repellent, ugly, or upsetting
Politics
as the structure of diverse interests about a particular issue or it can be defined as the process of communicating these interests
"Practical Politics"
California's Proposition 215, Arizona's Proposition 200, and Oregon's Medical Marijuana Law, each of which aimes to legalize doctors' prescription of marijuana purposes
Multicultural Health Communities
we all think, speak, and behave in ways that are influence by our membership in our cultural communities...this influences how health care providers and patients communicate with one another and how health care is delivered
public narratives
defined medically, professionally, and politically
metanarratives
cultural expectations
individual narrative
personal, informal, or lay
formative live passages
revolve around young girls and boys emotional expression, self-esteem, and body image
Gender differences in adolescent emotional expression
boys restrict emotional expression, while girls increase emotional expression
body image has a major influence on self-esteem and self-image
body politic
placing in the position of internalizing and resisting the messages that objectify them