
Evolution of Sickness and Healing
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To show how this complex, integrated adaptation for sickness and healing lies at the root of medicine, and how it is expressed culturally in relation to the changing historical contingencies of human societies, Fàbrega traces the characteristics of sickness and healing through the early and later stages of social evolution. Besides offering a new conceptual structure and a methodology for analyzing medicine in evolutionary terms, he shows the relevance of this approach and its implications for the social sciences and for medical policy. Health scientists and medical practitioners, along with medical historians, economists, anthropologists, and sociologists, now have the opportunity to consider every essential aspect of medicine within an integrated framework.
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- 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
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