SOC427 Health and illness discussion 2

soc 427 health and illness discussion 2

You must respond to Prompt 1C:

Browse the website for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) (www.nami.org), the major organization promoting the interests of persons with mental illness and their families. What is NAMI’s approach to mental illness? How is it similar to or different from the perspective presented in the text?

Prompt 2:

• How does the social construction of illness—both specific illnesses and illness in general—affect the lives of persons who have chronic illnesses?
• Ethnicity affects individuals’ health in many different ways. Compare the effect of ethnicity on health for two ethnic groups (of your choice), summarizing and explaining the similarities and differences between them.