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Evolution of sickness and healing

Title: Evolution of sickness and healing / Horacio Fábrega, Jr.
Author: Fabrega, Horacio, Jr., 1934-
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997.

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Description

xv, 364 p.; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. The Need for Theory in the Study of Sickness and Healing -- Ch. 2. Origins of Sickness and Healing -- Ch. 3. Early Stages of the Evolution of Sickness and Healing -- Ch. 4. Later Stages of the Evolution of Sickness and Healing -- Ch. 5. Culture, Drugs, and Disorders of Habituation -- Ch. 6. Somatopsychic Disorders in an Evolutionary Context -- Ch. 7. Descriptive Parameters of Sickness and Healing -- Ch. 8. An Evolutionary Conception of Sickness and Healing -- Ch. 9. A Broad View of Medical Evolution -- Ch. 10. Implications of an Evolutionary Approach to Sickness and Healing -- Ch. 11. Toward an Evolutionary Philosophy of Medicine -- Appendix. Outline of the Evolution of Sickness and Healing.

ISBN

0520206096 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

96029318

OCLC

35138353
ocm35138353
SCSB-4782714

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Columbia University Libraries