Functional Disorders

Japanese: 機能的疾患 - きのうてきしっかん
Functional Disorders

...This can be seen as a shift in the social control mechanisms for deviant behavior in society from legal and punitive to medical and therapeutic forms.
[Organic and functional diseases]
In the face of the social and cultural background described above, in order for doctors to prove that a patient is medically ill, they focus on the changes that are most easily visualized as models. These are called organic diseases.

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "functional diseases" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…これは,社会における逸脱行為に対する社会的な調整装置が,法律的,処罰的な形から医学的,治療的な形に移行したものとみることができる。
[器質的疾患と機能的疾患]
 前述のような社会的,文化的な背景の前で,医師が医学的に病気であることを証明するためには,モデルとして最も可視化しやすい変化を中心にする。これを器質的疾患という。…

※「機能的疾患」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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