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Page 118
... sick " kind of deviance with even minimal common characteristics252 is a hazardous undertaking . The contemporary assignation of sick - roles is of a unique kind . It developed not much more than a generation before Henderson and ...
... sick " kind of deviance with even minimal common characteristics252 is a hazardous undertaking . The contemporary assignation of sick - roles is of a unique kind . It developed not much more than a generation before Henderson and ...
Page 119
... sick - status to a client , the contemporary physician might indeed be acting in some ways similar to the sorcerer or the elder ; but in belonging also to a scientific profession that invents the categories it assigns when consulting ...
... sick - status to a client , the contemporary physician might indeed be acting in some ways similar to the sorcerer or the elder ; but in belonging also to a scientific profession that invents the categories it assigns when consulting ...
Page 120
... sick - role described by Parsons fits modern society only as long as doctors act as if treatment were usually effective and while the general public is willing to share their rosy view.257 The mid- twentieth - century sick - role has ...
... sick - role described by Parsons fits modern society only as long as doctors act as if treatment were usually effective and while the general public is willing to share their rosy view.257 The mid- twentieth - century sick - role has ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Specific Counterproductivity | 211 |
Copyright | |
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