What is the different between illness and diseases from medical anthropology perspective?

Question

What is the different between illness and diseases from medical anthropology perspective?

Answer 1

Disease is a pathological condition that is objectively measurable based on unequivocable physiological, chemical, or biological criteria. The term is often misused to describe behaviors like alcoholism. Alcoholism is a behavior, cirhossis of the liver is a disease.

Illness is any condition that the affected person believes is detrimental to their physical, mental, spiritual, religious, or moral well-being. An illness is not measurable with any objective criteria as it is a self constucted perception. Illnesses can be symptoms of diseases.

Answer 2

Illness,  a disease, sickness, or indisposition or a state of bad health.. Diseases, a condition in humans, plants,  animals that results in pathological symptoms and is not the direct result of physical injury or a disorder in humans, animals, or plants with recognizable signs and often having a known cause or a serious problem in society or with a group of people..

Answer 3

An illness is simply an internal dysfuntion of the body such as a cold which is not contagious, cannot be spread.

A disease is a foreign entity which has invaded the body such as malaria or small pox and a disease can be spread.  A cold isn't a disease.

Alcoholism is not a disease.