Abstract
Like economy, religion and politics the health and illness is a part and parcel of the any society. In sociology, the relationship among magic, religion and medicines have been discussed deeply. The Indian sociologists have done in-depth study of the social character of health and sickness. Truly speaking the field of medicine comprise a number of individuals interacting with each other influenced by the local health culture and the society. In this way the concept of health, illness and medicine will be largely influenced by the particular type of culture mainly. Hence health and illness should be studied in a holistic way from the lens of the socio-cultural factors. Each and every individual will develop the health seeking behavior or health care seeking behavior over the period of time. Sometime the health seeking behavior may be similar or different. In this background the Indian sociologists have tried to study the social dimension of health and illness and response of the society.
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