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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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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| Σειρά: | UC Press voices revived.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8085272 |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The need for theory in the study of sickness and healing
- 2. Origins of sickness and healing
- 3. Early stages of the evolution of sickness and healing
- 4. Later stages of the evolution of sickness and healing
- 5. Culture, drugs, and disorders of habituation
- 6. Somatopsychic disorders in an evolutionary context
- 7. Descriptive parameters of sickness and healing
- 8. An evolutionary conception of sickness and healing
- 9. A broad view of medical evolution
- 10. Implications of an evolutionary approach to sickness and healing
- 11. Toward an evolutionary philosophy of medicine
- Appendix: outline of the evolution of sickness and healing
- References
- Index