5. Analyze the role of culture and power in mediating relationship quality, including that of the
health care professional and patient.
9. Recognize the infrastructural nature of hierarchy. |
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Section 2:  Exercise 5 Composition and hierarchy
In thinking about the hierarchical relationships between caregiver and patient, it may help you to complete the following grid. Then answer the questions below.
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Caregiver present? |
Subject present? |
Chandler painting |
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Smith photo |
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Sudanese child |
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- How is this grid a comment on position (in time, space, hierachy) and the balance of power? Which represents the most equitable arrangement?
- Can you comment on some of the major the determinants of power? In other words, using the information from the three images--Chandler, Smith and Carter--and your past experiences, can you enumerate some of the traits and positional advantages in the caregiver-patient relationship that give the caregiver/physician power? That deprive the patient of power?
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