علم الاجتماع الطبي و النظريات الاجتماعية المتعلقة بالصحة و المرض

الملخص EN

According to the functionalist perspective, health is vital to the stability of the society, and therefore sickness is a sanctioned form of deviance.

Talcott Parsons(1951) was the first to discuss this in terms of expectations that define appropriate behavior for the sick and for those who take care of them.