Population change - Chronic illness
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Population change - how will it transform the world? Laurie Taylor talks to Sarah Harper, Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford, about one of the greatest global challenges of the 21st century. She's joined by Robert Mayhew, Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Bristol. Also, a cross cultural study of chronic illness management. Ivaylo Vassilev, Senior Research Fellow in Health Sciences at the University of Southampton, discusses the different experiences and perceptions of people suffering with diabetes in the UK and Bulgaria. Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Thinking Aloud Podcast from the BBC and for more details in our terms of use and much, |
| 0:06.2 | much more about thinking aloud. Go to our website at BBC.co.uk. |
| 0:12.4 | Hello. My mother read tongues. |
| 0:15.0 | Whenever one of her four children claimed at breakfast time to meal, |
| 0:18.0 | she'd invite them to open their mouths and stick out their tongues |
| 0:21.0 | so she could assess the extent of their pathology. |
| 0:23.4 | And as I remember we all used to go along with the results of this diagnostic test. |
| 0:28.3 | No matter how wretched we might feel if our tong provided no confirming evidence we all accepted we had no option but to stop |
| 0:34.4 | moaning and put on our satchel. At that time mother's emphasis upon the importance of |
| 0:40.1 | self-diagnosis was well it was hardly a baron. But how are you today? How's your tongue? Is it smooth |
| 0:46.8 | and red or knobby and beige with an overcoat of a muddy hue? And how's the stomach? Is it firm and steady or somewhat warm or a little |
| 0:55.8 | wobbly and a trifle windy? The radio doctor Charles Hill checking symptoms |
| 1:01.8 | over the airways back in the in the 1940s. |
| 1:04.7 | Well nowadays it's probably only hypercondriacs who are wholly content with self-diagnosis. |
| 1:09.1 | I just know I'm seriously ill, right? |
| 1:12.9 | While the rest of us choose to place our trust in professionals, but while we may have retreated |
| 1:17.4 | from self-diagnosis, except perhaps online, we seem when it comes to illness to accept |
| 1:21.8 | more and more self-blame. |
| 1:24.0 | Illness rather than being merely a medical condition has become indicative of moral failure. |
| 1:28.6 | It's somehow, it's somehow our fault. |
| 1:31.0 | Well a new paper shines a fascinating light on this development by comparing two |
| 1:35.6 | modern capitalist states, Bulgaria and the UK, which display widely different views |
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