Question Description
PAPER: Choose 3 of the following terms on the list and write a 3-5 page essay, (double-spaced, 12 point font, 1 inch margins), on how Lissa: a Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution addresses these three terms through a fictionalized story in comics form, based on medical anthropological research. Make sure you define all your terms so that someone who is not in our class could follow the logic and understand you. Use textual evidence and cite your sources.
TERMS: (3 for a paper)
- sick role as social control
- structural violence
- political etiology
- commodification of the body
- commodification of health care
- illness narrative vs. medical disease description
- medicalization of (explain what is being medicalized and how)
- social determinants of health
- medicine and political conflict
- contestation between normal and pathological
- metaphors affecting the illness experience
- social stigma and disease
- Neoliberalism
- upstream vs. downstream factors
- preemptive disease
- social deviance
- cultural assumptions of biomedicine
- naturalization of inequalities
- individual health surveillance
- pinkwashing