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Parsons The Sick

«The sick person is, by definition, in some respect disabled from fulfilling normal social obligations, and the motivation of the sick person as being or staying sick has some reference to this fact.»

Talcott Parsons (1951) in: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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