Illness and the sick role: an evaluation in three communities.
About: This article is published in British Journal of Sociology.The article was published on 1970-09-01. It has received 22 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sick role.
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TL;DR: The main point of this review is to show that a combination of those two approaches is highly desirable: the different methods currently available should be combined in order to consider all the factors intervening in the use of health care.
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TL;DR: To explain how individuals cope with medically unreported health status, deviations, a situational conception of everyday illness behavior is proposed, it is suggested that illness and pathology may not be reported because persons are able to contain signs and symptoms of illness within socially defined situations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the reviewer's task is to create order out of chaos a difficult endeavor in the vast and complex interdisciplinary domain of human and social behavior in relation to health-illness.
Abstract: The reviewer’s task is to create order out of chaos a difficult endeavor in the vast and complex interdisciplinary domain of human and social behavior in relation to health-illness. The title of this paper, which is a statement of its primary objective as well as of the division of labor among the contributors to this monograph, provides little guidance about possible structure and appropriate boundaries. The fact is that most of the potentially relevant empirical material on chronic illness naturally clusters under quite different topics utilization of services, doctor-patient relationship, and so on and most such studies are opaque to searchlights directed from other theoretical angles.
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TL;DR: A review of the literature shows that social science rises visibly above the level of common sense in contributing to our understanding of communication in the patient-physican relationship as discussed by the authors, and the role of other health professionals, particularly nurse-practitioners, in the process of patientphysician interaction.
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TL;DR: Bivariate and multivariate analysis was used to explore associations between those who were part of the symptom 'iceberg' or 'trivia', and factors which might have caused such incongruous referral behaviour.
Abstract: The medical symptom 'iceberg' and 'trivia' were defined in terms of people's own perceptions of their symptoms and their subsequent referral behaviour. The data were collected by household interviews of patients registered at a health centre and included information on personal and environmental characteristics. Bivariate and multivariate analysis was used to explore associations between those who were part of the symptom 'iceberg' or 'trivia', and factors which might have caused such incongruous referral behaviour.
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TL;DR: The role proper to the sociologist was described in these forthright terms: 'Social theorists need be meek men, and should stand with head uncovered before the special gifts and sernces of the men of genius who are working the latter-day miracles of industry and commerce' as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: r N THE FIRST VOLUME of tlle first American journal devoted entirely to the subject of sociology, the role proper to the sociologist zwas described in these forthright terms: 'Social theorists need be meek men, and should stand with head uncovered before the special gifts and sernces of the men of genius who are working the latter-day miracles of industry and commerce.'l This was announced in I895. A few years later, ltmile Durkheim, who by all accounts ssas not apt to take up this diffident and admiring position before anyone, least of all businessmen, was reminding his readers that sociology was 'born only yesterday', indeed, that 'in the fifteen years before I900, it was possible to mention only ten names which were truly and properly the names of
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