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disease-illness-sickness distinction: a standalone construct

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Medical anthropology

the distinction between disease as biological malfunction, illness as the sufferer's experience, and sickness as the socially recognized condition.

In medical anthropology, disease-illness-sickness distinction refers to the distinction between disease as biological malfunction, illness as the sufferer's experience, and sickness as the socially recognized condition. This meaning comes from Young (1982) in Annual Review of Anthropology.[1]

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References

Young, A. (1982). The Anthropologies of Illness and Sickness. Annual Review of Anthropology, 11(1), 257-285. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.11.100182.001353

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