The collective representation of affliction: Some reflections on disability and disease as social facts

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 6 (2) (1985)
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Abstract

A perspective is developed for approaching affliction as a social fact. Disability and disease are considered as two ways in which we suffer a disjunction which arises from the need to take initiative with respect to the inexorable, whether that means the mark of disability or the unconquerability of disease.The story of affliction always raises and masks in certain respects the problem of suffering as the collective representation of our experience of subjectivity where that experience passes through the separateness of being marked to the singularity of being without hope.

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