ABSTRACT
All societies strive to find a connection between the biological order and the social order. In all societies, illness can be connected to causes of a social nature. How is this connection made in our society? What do we mean when we speak, and we do so more and more often, about the “social dimension” of illness? Since the 1950s in the United States, and since the late 1960s in France, sociology has begun to answer these questions.
