patienthood

English

Etymology

patient +‎ -hood

Noun

patienthood (countable and uncountable, plural patienthoods)

1. The state of being a patient or of being ill.
   • 2006, R. Hrair Dekmejian, Spectrum of Terror:

     Because of their inability to resolve their personal crises, these assassins will project their individual patienthoods upon society and, in their attempt to universalize their personal pain, could focus on the destruction of a leading figure or monument.

   • 2014, Ruth Behar, The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart:

     Getting better involves not only the ability to use the injured limbs again, but regaining the freedom to emerge “from self-absorption, sickness, patienthood, and confinement, to the spaciousness of health, of full being, of thereal world.”

   • 2015, Hesook Suzie Kim, The Essence of Nursing Practice: Philosophy and Perspective, page 35:

     Thus, the notion of patienthood seems to be changing from these two prevailing notions to a cultural relativistic idea that believes it to represent cultural and linguistic variations stemming from local beliefs, meanings, and practices related to the definition of health, illness, and health care seeking.

   • 2018, Ahmed Ragab, Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam:

     Here, patienthood invoked an epistemic investigation into causes and results and motivated decisions about seeking or rejecting cure.