Some problems in the definition of "sickness"
There is scholarly article considered problems of difference of terms «sickness» and «disease». Interesting, that International health regulations enshrine «sickness» as disease, well as medical state. But, bulletins of the WHO enshrine «disease» as umbrella term of sickness. Authors approaches a problem, that Russian law doesn't fix the definitions «sickness», «chronic ailment» and «medical state».