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This chapter proceeds to discuss the features of a disease and the specific realities of illness by showing the difference between the two concepts. Disease and illness categories (acute, chronic, accidents/injuries, and mental disease/illness) are discussed.
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9 sty 2019 · The concepts of disease, illness and sickness capture fundamentally different aspects of phenomena related to human ailments and healthcare. The philosophy and theory of medicine are making manifold efforts to capture the essence and normative implications of these concepts.
22 wrz 2008 · Concepts of Disease and Health. First published Mon Sep 22, 2008; substantive revision Wed Mar 18, 2020. Health and disease are critical concepts in bioethics with far-reaching social and political implications.
9 sty 2019 · Background: The concepts of disease, illness and sickness capture fundamentally different aspects of phenomena related to human ailments and healthcare. The philosophy and theory of medicine are making manifold efforts to capture the essence and normative implications of these concepts.
world's history have forcibly separated illness and disease. The success of medicine has created a strain: the doctor sees his role as the curer of disease and "forgets" his role as a healer of the sick, and patients wander disabled but without a culturally acceptable mantle of disease with which to clothe the nakedness of their pain.
16 lis 2021 · Schramme argues that a clear definition of disease is especially needed—in combination with a specific theory on distributive justice—to serve as a gatekeeper for medicalization and to justify claims on health resources.
25 lut 2004 · Mechanic (1995: 1208) defines illness behaviour as ‘the varying ways individuals respond to bodily indications, how they monitor internal states, define and interpret symptoms, make attributions, take remedial actions and utilise various sources of formal and informal care’.
