Illness Experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7076944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graham Scambler (University of Surrey), Sasha Scambler (0000-0002-7232-3277), Sasha Scamber (King's College London) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 1-2 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosi015.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4241568399 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The phrase “illness experience” refers to the ways in which people define and adjust to perceived interruptions in their health. It is conventional in medical sociology to distinguish between illness and disease. “Illness” refers to people's lay or subjective definitions of health problems, while “disease” refers to professional or objective definitions of health problems, which are based on signs and symptoms. The value of this distinction is that it allows us to acknowledge that people can be ill without having a disease and can have a disease without being ill (Freidson, 1970
Disease · Health care · Illness behavior · Linguistics · MEDLINE · Pathology · Phrase · Political science · Psychiatry · Sick role · Sociology of health and illness · Value (mathematics · Value (mathematics) · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |