How Well Do You Understand the Social Construction of Illness and Disease?

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A medically diagnosed condition curable through biomedical treatments.
The personal experience of feeling unwell, heavily influenced by social context. (correct)
Using medicine to improve or enhance oneself.
Social actions taken as a result of illness or disease

The personal experience of feeling unwell, heavily influenced by social context.
Social actions taken as a result of illness or disease
A medically diagnosed condition curable through biomedical treatments.
Using medicine to improve or enhance oneself. (correct)

A medically diagnosed condition curable through biomedical treatments.
Social actions taken as a result of illness or disease (correct)
The personal experience of feeling unwell, heavily influenced by social context.
Using medicine to improve or enhance oneself.

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Meanings of illness, sickness, and disease are socially constructed.
Disease is diagnosed by a physician and curable through biomedical treatments.
Illness is the personal experience of feeling unwell, heavily influenced by social context.
Sickness refers to social actions taken as a result of illness or disease.
Aspirational health involves using medicine to improve or enhance oneself.
People can act sick without having a medical diagnosis.
Illness, sickness, and disease are socially constructed experiences.
Cultural variations exist in the experience of being ill.
Neo-liberal health promotion assumes individuals are responsible for staying well.
The medical care system is based on aggressive intervention once a disease has been detected.