Sick Role

"Sick Role" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Set of expectations that exempt persons from responsibility for their illness and exempt them from usual responsibilities.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sick Role" by people in this website by year, and whether "Sick Role" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 29 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 1994 and 1996 and 2008
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