Disease versus illness in general practice.
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- Vol. 31 (230) , 548-52
Abstract
Two different, though interrelated, conceptions of ill-health - disease and illness - are described. Recent literature on this disease/illness model is reviewed, and the value of this approach to general practice is shown.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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