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Disease refers to the underlying biological or pathological cause of a medical condition as defined by practitioners. Illness describes a patient's subjective experience of symptoms and how they feel. Sickness encompasses the social and cultural perceptions of a condition, including how patients and society may react through fear or rejection.

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Disease, Sickness, Illness PDF

Disease refers to the underlying biological or pathological cause of a medical condition as defined by practitioners. Illness describes a patient's subjective experience of symptoms and how they feel. Sickness encompasses the social and cultural perceptions of a condition, including how patients and society may react through fear or rejection.

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Disease, Sickness & Illness

We may distinguish 3 levels that describe what a patient


experiences :
Disease
(underlying pathology;
biologically defined.
Illness recast in terms of
a theory of disorder: the
practitioner’s perspective)

Illness
(the person’s Sickness
subjective (social & cultural conceptions of
experience the condition. These include
of symptoms. reactions such as fear or
What the patient brings rejection, which influence how
to the doctor) the patient reacts)

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