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Why a functionalist cared. Talcott Parsons described the sick role in 1951. For him illness is a dysfunction: it withdraws a person’s labour from a system that was counting on it. So society does not simply let people be sick — it channels illness into a licensed, temporary, supervised exit with a built-in obligation to come back. Two rights, two duties, and a gatekeeper holding the pen.