Received: from binah.cc.brandeis.edu (binah.cc.brandeis.edu [129.64.1.3]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with ESMTP id OAA15214 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 14:27:05 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [209.6.68.28] (d28.dial-5.cmb.ma.ultra.net) by BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU (PMDF V5.1-7 #17138) with SMTP id <01J2F9HJ99MOHVHOSZ@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> for MedSoc@csf.colorado.edu; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:15:55 EST Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:15:55 -0500 (EST) From: conrad@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU (Peter Conrad) Subject: Re: GREETINGS To: MedSoc@csf.colorado.edu Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Al Wesson-- I suspect you didn't mean to post your note to Sam Bloom on the Med Soc listserve, but that's what happens when one hits 'reply.' But I have an answer to your question about the illness/disease dichotomy. The first places I know about are in Abram Feinstein's book CLINICAL JUDGMENT (1967) and in sociology in Freidson's PROFESSION OF MEDICINE (1970). A frequently cited source of this dichotomy is an article by Leon Eisenberg "Illness and Disease: Distinctions between popular and professional ideas of sickness" (in CULTURE, MEDICINE AND PSYCHITRY, 1977). Perhaps there were earlier distinctions, but I am not familiar with them. Peter Conrad