Disease

Japanese: disease
Disease

... In light of this, the idea that functional illnesses, and even organic illnesses, should be understood in terms of their functional impairment in relation to the individual, family, culture, and society has recently become stronger. In this case, illness is distinguished between disease and illness in the narrow sense, with the former being the concept of modern Western medicine and the latter representing this aspect. Medical sociology, medical anthropology, and comparative psychiatry attempt to understand and deal with illness in this way, and it has been pointed out that pre-modern Western medicine, ethnomedicine, and classical medicine are also based on a similar understanding. ...

*Some terminology explanations that mention "disease" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… そこで,とくに機能的な病気,および器質的な病気でも,その機能的な障害の局面に対しては,個人と家族,文化・社会などとの関連において理解すべきであるという考え方が最近強くなっている。この場合,病気を疾患diseaseと〈やまい〉あるいは狭義の病気illnessとに区別し,前者を西欧近代医学的な概念とし,後者をもって,この局面を代表させようとする考え方である。医療社会学,医療人類学,あるいは比較精神医学などでは,このように病気をとらえて対処しようとしており,さらに近代以前の西欧医学,民族医学,古典医学なども同じような理解に立っていることが指摘されている。…

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