SEMIOTICA
Volume 1, Numéro 1, Pages 5-14
2024-11-11
The Problematic Of Health And Illness In Society
الكاتب : Lazeghed Radia .
الملخص
Illness is a universal phenomenon shared by all cultures and societies, regardless of their levels of technological advancement. However, there are differences in how individuals re-spond to it. While most definitions consider health as the absence of illness with its biological signs, reality reveals a broad and shifting spectrum between health and illness. Culturally, this reflects individuals' perspectives and the role illness plays in the life of each society. Biologi-cally, illness represents a state of dysfunction or organ deficiency, which necessitates an eco-nomic model involving various economic and social actors who exchange financial expendi-tures among themselves. From a social perspective, the concepts of health and illness are linked to various social sys-tems and structures, such as mechanisms of social control. Medicine serves as one of these mechanisms, as if we assume that illness is a deviation from societal norms or a breach of cus-tomary rules, medicine becomes a tool used by the group to manage such deviations, restore harmony with social standards, and reorganize behavior
الكلمات المفتاحية
health, illness, general concept, cultural concept, biological concept, social concept.
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