البناء الاجتماعي للحقيقة الطبية : جدلية الطبي و الاجتماعي

Abstract EN

This paper takes the problematic concepts of Health, Illness/Disease and Therapy not merely as medical, but equally as social facts and socio-cultural and politico-economic issues.

It argues that both human biology and human society can provide only a partial, one-sided explanation of disease aetiology in any society.

Disease can be produced, developed or transformed only in a dialectical process of on -going interaction/interrelation between medical objects and social subjects.

It is the contention of this paper that there are no "diseases" as such-only sick people.

Diseases do not, infact, exist and / or affect as substantial independent entities isolated from processes of definition, recognition, actions and reactions of sick individuals.

The paper, therefore, suggests that sociomedical research should turn to address itself to new understanding of the decisive processes in which medical fact is not merely medically defined, but also socially constructed.