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Illness is a presentation of a medical condition in a way that limits the functional capability of an individual in the society. This is why Nordenfeldt ( 1993 ) observed that to be ill is to be in pain, to be anxious, or to be disabled.
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1. a. : sickness sense 2. b. : an unhealthy condition of body or mind. 2. obsolete. a. : wickedness. b. : unpleasantness. Synonyms. affection. ailment. bug. complaint. complication. condition. disease. disorder. distemper.
1. An interruption, cessation, or disorder of a body, system, or organ structure or function. See also: syndrome. Synonym (s): illness, morbus, sickness. 2. A morbid entity ordinarily characterized by two or more of the following criteria: recognized etiologic agent (s), identifiable group of signs and symptoms, or consistent anatomic alterations.
A medical definition. Professor Marshall Marinker, a general practitioner, suggested over twenty years ago a helpful way of distinguishing between disease, illness and sickness. He characterises these “three modes of unhealth’”as follows.
- Kenneth M Boyd
- 2000
Jan 9, 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.
- Anna-Henrikje Seidlein, Sabine Salloch
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- 2019
- BMC Med Ethics. 2019; 20: 5.
Jul 7, 2010 · Illness is the comfortable, familiar and meaningful word used to denote unwellness in general: someone has fallen ill; another has died of a chronic illness. How did this etymologic thievery come about in our medical schools?
Eisenberg goes on to define illness as experience of disval-ued changes in the state of being and in social function, whereas diseases – especially in the context of health care systems – are related to abnormalities in structures and functions both of body organs and body systems.
