Lesson 6

Front 1

The Crisis Management

Back 1

relies on the process in chronic illness of managing and averting health crises.

Front 2

Disease

Back 2

an objective, physical condition, located in specific organs or systems of the body, diagnosed by a physician and treatable by biomedicine

Front 3

Illness

Back 3

the personal experience of the person who does not feel well.

Front 4

Illness as Choice

Back 4

a folk model of illness that suggests that when we get sick and what we get sick with are the result of choice.

Front 5

Illness as Communication

Back 5

is a folk model of illness that suggests that illness provides a way to communicate about important 'soul' issues.

Front 6

Illness as despair

Back 6

a folk model of illness that suggests that illness results from unhappiness.

Front 7

Illness as message of the body

Back 7

is a folk model of illness that suggests that illness is an expression of the whole person through bodily symptoms

Front 8

Illness as secondary gain

Back 8

a folk model of illness that suggests that there are certain benefits for illness.

Front 9

Illness as sexual politics

Back 9

is a folk model of illness that suggests that illness diagnoses reflect gender.

Front 10

Managing Medical Regimes

Back 10

is often a complex method of managing the taking of various medications in chronic illness.

Front 11

Psychosomatic

Back 11

describes a physical disorder which originates in or is aggravated by emotional factors.

Front 12

Sickness

Back 12

the social action taken by a person in response to illness or disease.

Front 13

Stigma

Back 13

an attribution that discredits the value of a person.