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The first major theory within sociology that analysed the role of health and illness in social life was devised by the functionalist theorist Talcott Parsons (1951) in his book ‘The Social System’.
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In the 1930s and 1940s Parsons undertook to understand medical practice in order to focus on liberal democracy in modern society. He used medical practice as an example and also as a metaphor to demonstrate the mechanisms of liberal democracy as against those of capitalism, socialism and the then contemporary fascism.
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Jul 5, 2010 · The precarious social position of chronic patients between being governed by and being consumers of medicine, I will argue, can only be adequately understood if one involves, as Parsons did, the moral economy surrounding health and illness.
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- 2010
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Initially, Parsons was attracted to a career in medicine, as he was inspired by his elder brother: 826 so he studied a great deal of biology and spent a summer working at the Oceanographic Institution at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
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