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Functionalism on Health
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Functionalists hold that health is vital to stability, treating sickness as a sanctioned form of deviance managed through the sick role.
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A society's medical system, from Soc 1591's sick role, works to return the sick to normal roles rather than leave the exemption open-ended.
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Naming health's stabilizing function is not a claim every person receives equal access to care that restores it.