期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2014
卷号：21
期号：3
页码：654-660
DOI：10.5604/12321966.1120619
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Introduction and objective. The main research objective is a study of social influences on the processes of experiencingillness in the sociological meaning of the term ‘illness experience’ focusing attention on the subjective activity inspiredby being ill, taking into account interpretive (meaning-making) activity. The goal of the analysis is to specify ‘social actors’jointly creating the phenomena of ‘illness’ and ‘being ill’, taking into consideration the evolution of the position of medicalsociology on this issue.Brief description of the state of knowledge. The ways of experiencing illness in contemporary society, includingprocesses of creating the meanings of the phenomena of ‘illness’ and ‘being ill’, are the outcome of not only the applicationof biomedical knowledge, but are also parallelly a sociocultural ‘construct’ in the sense that they are under the impact ofsocial and cultural influences. In the sociology of illness experience it is pointed out that illness experience develops inconnection with experiencing somatic discomfort, this process occurring in the context of influences of culture, societyand socially accepted norms and values. These relationships are interpreted by the sociological, interactionist model whichpresents illness as a ‘social construct’.Conclusions. Sociological studies on the social construction of ‘illness’ and ‘being ill’ construct a model of these phenomena,complementary to the biomedical model, conducive to the validation of the patient’s perspective in the processes ofmedical treatment, and to the humanization of the naturalistically oriented, biomedical approach to illness, i.e. to adjust itmore accurately to typically human needs manifesting themselves in the situation of being ill.
关键词：medical sociology; sociology of illness; sociology of illness experience; social constructionism
