Definitions
The lived experience of symptoms and suffering; how a sick person and the members of their social network perceive, live with, and respond to symptoms and disability.
What is illness?
The notions that patients, families, and practitioners have about a specific illness episode
What are explanatory models?
The enforcement of differential privileges and power based on proximity to whiteness.
What is the moral economy of whiteness?
This is the aspect of self oriented by and toward pharmaceutical drugs.
What is the pharmaceutical self?
These are the three main categories of study in Global Mental Health.
What are mental illness, substance use disorders, and neurological disorders?
The physical disruption of bodily processes; a sick person’s story from a medical practitioner's perspective in terms of theories of disorder
What is disease?
A sick person’s story that helps them explain why they got sick and what is going to happen to them
What is an illness narrative?
The reconfiguration of disease and illness as ONLY an alteration in biological or structuring
What is biological reductionism?
The material things of therapy with powers to transform bodies.
What is materia medica?
This is what the example of switching quickly from cigarettes to vapes rejects.
What is biological determinism?
When you seek our different types of professional treatment, like taking advil for a backache or drinking tea with honey when you have a sore throat.
What are illness behaviors?
The form and content of treatment
What is therapeutic procedure?
This is the trend where the logics and techniques of crime control spread throughout society.
What is governing through crime?
As Guest lecturer Allison Schlosser described, the drugs responsible for the opioid crisis in Northeast Ohio shifted from WHAT to heroin?
What is the over prescription of opioids?
This refers to when a more experienced member of a 12-Step group – man or woman – pursues a romantic relationship with a new group member.
What is the 13th Step?
A field of research, practice, and advocacy that prioritizes mental health for all persons and communities worldwide. As with physical health, mental health concerns all humans, whether as a temporary, mild condition or more persistent and serious condition affecting individuals and families.
What are global mental health?
The nature of participants’ experience while in treatment, e.g. changes or insights of emotions, thoughts, behaviors throughout the process of treatment
This refers to the enforcement of differential privileges and power based on proximity to whiteness that Mendoza et al argue contributes to the re-racialization of addiction in Staten Island.
What is the moral economy of whiteness?
Dr Elizabeth Durham described that in her fieldwork in Cameroon, psychiatrists highlighted the chronic nature of mental illness, and even likened it to what disease based on the successful previous public health campaign for that illness in Cameroon.
What is diabetes?
This is the phrase that Jenkins calls a pervasive metaphor in relation to psychopharmaceuticals.
What is a chemical imbalance?
Ethnographic analysis literally bounded by the clinic and clinical interactions
What is clinical ethnography?
The final state of participants in terms of satisfaction with healing and change in symptoms or functioning
What is therapeutic outcome?
This is the year that racial and ethnic minorities were not required to be included in federally funded clinical/health research, including drug research.
When is 1993?
There are this number of types of legal treatment centers for addiction in Mexico
What is four?
These are the four major themes that Hammer et al found in their study of the experience of addiction?
What are 1) what's normal 2) punctuated equilibrium 3) pedal to the medal 4) the snowball effect