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...

詳細記述

書誌詳細
第一著者: Fábrega, Horacio, Jr
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2022]
シリーズ:UC Press voices revived.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8085272
目次:
  • 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