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6. What is medicalisation?

  • The process whereby human conditions and problems come to be seen as medical conditions requiring medical intervention
  • The process whereby a human condition or life process is no longer considered a medical problem requiring medical intervention

7. What's the point of narrative reconstruction?

  • To bring coherence and meaning to our stories
  • To bring laughter and joy to the world
  • To prove that sociology is a real science

8. What is narrative reconstruction in relation to medicine?

  • The changing of narratives following a disruptive event such as an accident or illness
  • The ways in which a person's life becomes profoundly disrupted by trauma, chronic illness or injury

9. How does Normativism suggest normality can be defined?

  • Interpretatively
  • Objectively
  • Statistically

10. How does Naturalism suggest normality can be defined?

  • Statistically
  • Subjectively
  • Interpretatively

11. True or false: biographical disruption and narrative reconstruction are profoundly influenced by physical, social, cultural, financial and cognitive factors?

  • True
  • False
  • Pass

12. Which of the following is a reason why the social model of disability may be helpful to a doctor?

  • Can be seen by doctors to limit the effectiveness of treatment
  • Improved doctor-patient relationship
  • Can be seen to 'de-skill' a doctor

13. What is demedicalisation?

  • The process whereby a human condition or life process is no longer considered a medical problem requiring medical intervention
  • The process whereby human conditions and problems come to be seen as medical conditions requiring medical intervention

14. Which of the following most accurately describes the medical model of disability?

  • The problem is the disabled person
  • The problem is the disabling world
  • The problem is the disabled person's social group

15. What is biographical disruption in relation to medicine?

  • The ways in which a person's life becomes profoundly disrupted by trauma, chronic illness or injury
  • The changing of narratives following a disruptive event such as an accident or illness

16. Which of the following is the WHO definition of health?

  • Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being
  • Health is a state whereby the body is free from all abnormalities and disorders