| Evolution of Sickness and Healing |
| Preface |
| Acknowledgments |
 | 1 The Need for Theory in the Study of Sickness and Healing |
 | 2 Origins of Sickness and Healing |
| • | On the Value of a Biological Adaptation for Medicine |
| • | The Behavioral and Evolutionary Rationale of the SH Adaptation |
| • | Sickness and Healing in Chimpanzees |
| • | The SH Adaptation and Human Evolution |
| Conjuring Up the Archaeology and Prehistory of Sickness and Healing |
| On the Ecology of the SH Adaptation |
| • | On The Machinery of the SH Adaptation |
| Cheating and the SH Adaptation |
| • | Social and Emotional Considerations |
| • | Early Forms of SH in the Human Line of Evolution |
| • | Later Stages in the Evolution of Medicine |
| • | Summary |
| 3 Early Stages of the Evolution of Sickness and Healing |
| 4 Later Stages of the Evolution of Sickness and Healing |
| 5 Culture, Drugs, and Disorders of Habituation |
| 6 Somatopsychic Disorders in an Evolutionary Context |
| 7 Descriptive Parameters of Sickness and Healing |
| 8 An Evolutionary Conception of Sickness and Healing |
| 9 A Broad View of Medical Evolution |
| 10 Implications of an Evolutionary Approach to Sickness and Healing |
| 11 Toward an Evolutionary Philosophy of Medicine |
| Appendix: Outline of the Evolution of Sickness and Healing |
| References |
| Index |