Earliest Phases in the Evolution of Sickness and Healing

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 26-55

  Fabrega Jr , Horacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; WOUND HEALING;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DISEASE; HUMANS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031092375     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.1997.11.1.26     Document Type: Article

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