[Perspectives] Insurrection, paternalism, and pleasure in the sanatorium

Most doctors are familiar with the sick role, a term coined by the sociologist Talcott Parsons in 1951. It posits that a patient lying in a hospital bed is confined, not only by the affliction they are trying to recover from, but also by a set of assumptions that having that disease confers. It is surely a sign of progress, that doctors now rail against the passivity and infantilisation that the sick role implies. We want our patients to collaborate with us, be active in the face of illness, rise up from their hospital beds before the sheets have even had a chance to get warm.

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