Table 1 The three traditional concepts of disease, illness, and sickness [1, 17, 20]
From: The pharmaceuticalisation of life? A fictional case report of insomnia with a thought experiment
Disease: | Professional perspective | Objective view | What health care personnel think |
Illness: | Personal perspective | Subjective view | How it feels for the patient |
Sickness: | Social perspective | Inter-subjective | Sick role in a group, community, or society |