The Cultural Meaning of Illness
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Culture, not biology alone, determines which illnesses are stigmatized, which count as disabilities, and which are considered contestable rather than definitive.
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A skin disorder and a common cold carry very different social weight, though both are physiologically definable conditions.
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Two illnesses can be equally real biologically while receiving unequal social treatment; the gap is cultural, not medical.