Construction of illness: Deconstructing the social
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 6 (2) (1985)
| Abstract | This paper relates the discursive practices of teaching the concept of illness to some of the underlying metaphysical assumptions that secure an unproblematic sense of the subjective meaning of illness as a course of action. The paper explicates the normative character of the structures that form the subjectivity of theorist and patient by theorizing these statuses as qualitative relations to language. | |||||||||
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