What Is a Social Benefit of Adopting the Sick Role

question 61

Multiple Choice

What is a social benefit of adopting the sick role?

• A) It makes a person eligible for paid leave from work.
• B) People who do so are not looked down on or morally judged if they do not work.
• C) People who do so can, for example, eat fried foods after a heart attack or smoke after a cancer diagnosis.
• D) It makes it easier for doctors to cure patients.

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