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disease-illness distinction: a standalone construct

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Medical anthropology

the distinction between disease as abnormal organ function as defined by physicians and illness as the patient's experience of being unwell.

In medical anthropology, disease-illness distinction refers to the distinction between disease as abnormal organ function as defined by physicians and illness as the patient's experience of being unwell. This meaning comes from Eisenberg (1977) in Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry.[1]

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References

Eisenberg, L. (1977). Disease and illness Distinctions between professional and popular ideas of sickness. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 1(1), 9-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00114808

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