Evolution of Sickness and Healing.
Evolution of Sickness and Healing is a theoretical work on the grand scale, an original synthesis of many disciplines in social studies of medicine. Looking at human sickness and healing through the lens of evolutionary theory, Horacio Fàbrega, Jr. presents not only the vulnerability to disease and...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | UC Press voices revived.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8085272 |
| Summary: | Evolution of Sickness and Healing is a theoretical work on the grand scale, an original synthesis of many disciplines in social studies of medicine. Looking at human sickness and healing through the lens of evolutionary theory, Horacio Fàbrega, Jr. presents not only the vulnerability to disease and injury but also the need to show and communicate sickness and to seek and provide healing as innate biological traits grounded in evolution. This linking of sicknes. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (382 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9780520311565 0520311566 9780520358430 |