The "illness" / "disease" distinction
 

Mol notes (21) that "Western cultures live their 'illnesses' [...] by taking them to be 'diseases'"
 
23-4: "[Robert] Pool makes it clear that if an anthropologist goes out to study 'illness' as if it were the lay theory of a 'disease' that doctors talk about in medical terms, he is trapped from the beginning. He is trapped in 'disease' language. Why would laypeople [...] delineate entities in their own talk that nicely parallel the categories of Western medicine? To presume this is to presume that the disease categories of Western medicine are 'natural.'"

> from Annemarie Mol's The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (2002)

> tagged with #disease

> created February 13, 2021 at 4:50:18 PM


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