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Sick role is a term used in medical sociology regarding sickness and the rights and obligations of the affected. [1] It is a concept created by American sociologist Talcott Parsons in 1951. [ 2 ] The sick role fell out of favour in the 1990s replaced by social constructist theories.
By developing the “sick role mechanism” patients and doctors had to abide by a set of “rights” and “obligations” that would monitor entry into the sick role. The “rights” of a patient constituted an exemption from performing their respective social roles, such as going to work or housekeeping with the further exemption being ...
Medical sociology is the sociological analysis of health, Illness, differential access to medical resources, the social organization of medicine, Health Care Delivery, the production of medical knowledge, selection of methods, the study of actions and interactions of healthcare professionals, and the social or cultural (rather than clinical or bodily) effects of medical practice. [1]
Eliot Freidson (1923 – December 14, 2005) [1] was a sociologist and medical sociologist who worked on the theory of professions.Charles Bosk says that Freidson was a founding figure in medical sociology who played a major role in the growth and legitimization of the subject. [2]
Parsons participated at the World Congress of Sociology in Toronto in August 1974 at which he presented a paper, "The Sick Role Revisited: A Response to Critics and an Updating in Terms of the Theory of Action", which was published under a slightly different title, "The Sick Role and the Role of the Physician Reconsidered", in 1975. [159]
[4]: 340 Freidson notes that the use of medical technology, in the sense of diagnosis and treatment, has social meaning and so is a social activity. Freidson thinks germ theory is an expert activity in which the layman is not involved. [4]: 342 However, Freidson argues that the identification of disease is in part a moral activity. Drawing ...
In 1977 Frieda L. Gehlen offered a revised theory of hysterical contagion that argues that what is actually contagious is the belief that showing certain characteristics will "entitle one to the secondary benefits of the sick role." [1] It may be an unconscious decision on the part of the individual.
Others [4] examined the power and prestige of the medical profession, including the use of terminology to mystify and of professional rules to exclude or subordinate others. Tiago Correia (2017) [5] offers an alternative perspective on medicalization. He argues that medicalization needs to be detached from biomedicine to overcome much of the ...