Criticizing the distinction between illness and disease, the latest studies in medical sociology consider that the same is true with the Cartesian body/mind dichotomy; illness is associated with the body and illness with the mind. On the other hand, this dichotomy reflects the separation between nature and culture, when illness can be understood as a natural phenomenon, while illness is located on the side of the social and cultural context. Delving further into the concept of disease, Bryan Turner argues that disease is far from being a neutral organic phenomenon; the disease also has a clear social and cultural side (BS Turner, 2008). This statement is based on the idea that what we call a natural phenomenon is, to some extent, a cultural construct. The perception of bodily normality or the absence of disease is a phenomenon that varies depending on the cultural, social and political context in which medical knowledge is located (Turner, 2008). Thus, one and the same body can be considered healthy in different societies and cultures. On the other hand, anthropology highlights how disease can be caused by “the political, economic, social, structural and/or environmental context of a given society” (Baer, ​​Singer, Susser, 1997: 35). the human body and the sociocultural context, Leder explains how the body becomes the main site for constructing the external world: “the lived body helps to construct the world as it is experienced. The meaning and form of objects cannot be understood without reference to bodily powers. that we use – the senses, language and desires” (Nettleton and Watson, 2005: 10). The body becomes a medium through which we interact with the outside world, a transfer of world through our senses and...... middle of paper ...... Vannini 2006: 13 ).Rethinking the sociology of the body in Health, based on the phenomenological theory of symbolic interactionism, has allowed for a deeper and more detailed analysis of the wide range of emotional, social and cultural issues involved in the experience of suffering caused by illness. Thus, illness ceases to be a depersonalized phenomenon, conceptualized only in terms of organic dysfunction, now considered as a disorder that affects the individual's experience in the world, causing a collapse of the vision of self and sometimes of life. the entire identity of the individual. person (particularly in the event of very serious illnesses or disabilities). This vision led to the development of a humanistic model of medicine, particularly in terms of the family medicine model, which places greater emphasis on the patient's life context and the sociocultural aspects of the disease...