Abstract

This paper takes the problematic concepts of Health, Illness/Disease and Therapy not merely as medical, but equally as social facts and socio-cultural and politico-economic issues. It argues that both human biology and human society can provide only a partial, one-sided explanation of disease audiology in any society. Disease can be produced, developed or transformed only in a dialectical process of on -going interaction/interrelation between medical objects and social subjects. It is the contention of this paper that there are no “diseases as such-only sick people. Diseases do not, in fact, exist and / or affect as substantial independent entities isolated from processes of definition, recognition, actions and reactions of sick individuals. The paper, therefore, suggests that socio- medical research should turn to address itself to new under- standing of the decisive processes in which medical fact is not merely medically defined, but also socially constructed.