Evolution of Sickness and Healing by Horacio Fabrega

Evolution of Sickness and Healing by Horacio Fabrega

Looking at human sickness and healing through the lens of evolutionary theory, this work 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 sickness and healing, as inseparable facets of a unique human adaptation developed during the evolution of the hominid line, offers a point from which to examine medicine. The author traces the characteristics of sickness and healing through the early and later stages of social evolution. As well as offering a conceptual structure and a methodology for analyzing medicine in revolutionary terms, he shows the relevance of this approach and its implications for the social sciences and for medical policy.

Horacio Fábrega Jr., M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of Disease and Social Behavior (1980) and, with Daniel Silver, Illness and Shamanistic Curing in Zinacantan (1973).

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ISBN 13	9780520219533
ISBN 10	0520219538
Titel	Evolution of Sickness and Healing
Autor	Horacio Fábrega
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of California Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1999-07-06
Seitenanzahl	379
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.