Evolution of Sickness and Healing
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Evolution of Sickness and Healing

  1. 382 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Evolution of Sickness and Healing

About this book

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 sickness and healing, as inseparable facets of a unique human adaptation developed during the evolution of the hominid line, offers a new vantage point from which to examine the institution of medicine.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.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520358430
eBook ISBN
9780520311565
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1 The Need for Theory in the Study of Sickness and Healing
  8. 2 Origins of Sickness and Healing
  9. 3 Early Stages of the Evolution of Sickness and Healing
  10. 4 Later Stages of the Evolution of Sickness and Healing
  11. 5 Culture, Drugs, and Disorders of Habituation
  12. 6 Somatopsychic Disorders in an Evolutionary Context
  13. 7 Descriptive Parameters of Sickness and Healing
  14. 8 An Evolutionary Conception of Sickness and Healing
  15. 9 A Broad View of Medical Evolution
  16. 10 Implications of an Evolutionary Approach to Sickness and Healing
  17. 11 Toward an Evolutionary Philosophy of Medicine
  18. Appendix: Outline of the Evolution of Sickness and Healing
  19. References
  20. Index