Theory Of Disease
Scope Note
Extent of the attribution of disease to natural causes, to sorcery, and to supernatural aggression; prevalent theories of the supernatural causation of disease (e.g., soul loss, spirit possession, object intrusion, poison, evil eye, violation of taboos, pollution or contagion); special notions about loathsome diseases (e.g., leprosy); scientific theories of disease (e.g., transmission through germs); etc.
- Broader Term
- 750 Sickness
- Related Terms
- 164 Morbidity
- 742 Medical Research
- 761 Life And Death
- 770 Religious Beliefs
- 815 Science
- 827 Ethnophysiology
- 828 Ethnopsychology
- 843 Pregnancy
- Use Fors
- Bacteria (ideas about)
- Cold vs. hot classification of diseases
- Contagion (ideas about)
- Coughing (ideas about causes)
- Diseases ("hot" vs. "cold" classification)
- Diseases (germ theory)
- Diseases (ideas about)
- Diseases (ideas about) and treatment
- Etiology (medical)
- Evil eye (theory of disease)
- Germ theory of disease
- Gods (role in cause of disease)
- HIV/AIDS (ideas about)
- Loss of soul
- Parasites (belief about the cause disease)
- Pollution (cause of disease)
- Psychosomatic factors (cause of illness)
- Psychosomatic illness (theories)
- Soul (loss of as a cause disease)
- Soul loss
- Spirits (causes of disease)
- Identifier
- 753
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