Theories of Illness: A World SurveyUniversity of Pittsburgh Pre, 1980 M12 15 - 144 páginas An important contribution to medical anthropology, this work defines the principal causes if illness that are reported throughout the world, distinguishing those involving natural causation from the more widely prevalent hypotheses advancing supernatural explanations. |
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I Primitive Medicine | 3 |
II Theories of Natural Causation | 8 |
III Theories of Supernatural Causation | 17 |
IV Behavioral Science and the Comparative Ethnographic Method | 28 |
V Regional Analysis | 42 |
VI Mans Ideational Environment | 53 |
VII Witchcraft Theories and the CircumMediterranean | 64 |
IX Incidence of Spirit Aggression Theories | 72 |
X Aggression and Its Projection | 77 |
XI The Pastoral Relationship | 82 |
XII Sin Sex and Sickness | 88 |
The Societies Surveyed Identification and Bibliography | 99 |
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