Illness and Stigma
Seeing someone negatively because of an illness is called this
What is stigma?
rue or False: Culture can influence how people understand disease.
True.
A highly prevalent infectious disease spreading across a wide geographical area and affecting a large population.
What is a pandemic?
According to the PPT, COVID-19 produced fear of this.
What is the unknown?
“How did attitudes toward disease change from the Black Death to COVID-19?”
What is Change Over Time?
According to Goffman, stigma can affect not only how people view patients but also this important aspect of their lives.
What is the kind/quality of care they receive?
Something considered normal in one country may be considered ______ in another.
What is an illness?
This devastating pandemic occurred around 1350.
What is the Black Death?
Name ONE social reaction to COVID-19 mentioned in the lecture.
What are racism, xenophobia, discrimination, misinformation, or attacks against Asian people and other groups?
“Why did people living in the 1880s romanticize tuberculosis?”
Which C?
What is Context?
Give ONE disease or condition mentioned in the PPT as having experienced stigma.
What are AIDS, mental disorders, venereal diseases, or skin disorders
According to the PPT, culture can influence communication and interactions with these healthcare professionals.
Who are doctors and nurses?
This pandemic began in 1918.
What is the Spanish Flu?
The PPT uses these two opposing positions as an example of polarization during COVID-19.
What are pro-vaccine and anti-vaccine?
“What factors contributed to racism and xenophobia during COVID-19?”
What is Causality?
Why can stigma actually make a health problem worse?
It can discourage people from seeking help or treatment
This author wrote Illness as Metaphor.
Who is Susan Sontag?
This global health crisis appears on the PPT timeline beginning in 1981.
What is HIV/AIDS? What is HIV/AIDS?
Why might fear during a pandemic contribute to discrimination?
Open answer
“Would attitudes toward COVID-19 have been different if social media had not existed?”
What is Contingency?
Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome are examples of this category discussed in the lecture.
What are disputed diseases?
During Romanticism, this disease became associated with being genteel, delicate, and sensitive.
What is tuberculosis (TB)?
Put these in chronological order:
COVID-19 – Black Death – HIV/AIDS – Spanish Flu
Black Death → Spanish Flu → HIV/AIDS → COVID-19
inish this statement with at least three examples:
COVID-19 was not simply a medical event because...
politics, race, culture, misinformation, discrimination, vaccination debates, social polarization, etc.
“COVID-19 was simultaneously a medical, political, economic, social, and cultural event.”
What is Complexity?