Pain, illness, and disease form three distinct nested levels of bodily experience

Evidence

Sartre in this and in the earlier related passage is contrasting three things—pain, illness, disease. “Pain” refers to the specific aches and twinges, “illness” to the familiar recurrent pattern of these, “disease” to a totality which includes along with pain and illness the cause of them both and which can be diagnosed and named by the physician. The French words are douleur, mal, and maladie. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 931

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes douleur (specific aches) from mal (recurrent pattern) from maladie (named totality with cause) — a crucial terminological disambiguation.
• XREF: Connects to the medical anthropology literature (Kleinman’s illness/disease distinction) and to reading purpose grounding the ontology of the body/lived experience. — connects to: Human emotions manifest as felt in specific bodily locations and systems
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Human emotions manifest as felt in specific bodily locations and systems