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Key definitions and the big idea

Key definitions and the big idea

Concept map showing how a biological condition or impairment becomes a social label through cultural norms, professionals, policy, media and everyday interaction

Health is often defined, following the World Health Organization, as physical, mental and social wellbeing rather than just the absence of disease. Sociology begins by asking who gets to define "healthy", "ill" or "disabled", and what follows from those labels.

Definitions and the social construction of health, illness and disability Lesson

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