| Attempts to understand the relationship
between social behavior and health have their origin in history. Dubos (1969)
suggested that primitive humans were closer to the animals{{U}} (1)
{{/U}}they, too, relied'upon their instincts to stay healthy. Yet some
primitive humans{{U}} (2) {{/U}}a cause and effect relationship between
doing certain things and alleviating{{U}} (3) {{/U}}of a disease or{{U}}
(4) {{/U}}the condition of a wound.{{U}} (5) {{/U}}there was
so much that primitive humans did not{{U}} (6) {{/U}}the functioning of
the body, magic became an integral component ofthe beliefs about the causes and
cures of heath{{U}} (7) {{/U}}Therefore it is not{{U}} (8)
{{/U}}that early humans thought that illness was caused{{U}} (9)
{{/U}}evil spirit. Primitive medicines made from vegetables or animals were
invariably used in combination with some form of ritual to{{U}} (10)
{{/U}}harmful spirit from a diseased body. One of the. earliest{{U}} (11) {{/U}}in the Western world to formulate principles of health care based upon rational thought and{{U}} (12) {{/U}}of supernatural phenomena is found in the work of the Greek physician Hippocrates. The writing{{U}} (13) {{/U}}to him has provided a number of principles underiying modern medical practice. One of his most famous{{U}} (14) {{/U}}, the Hippocratic Oath, is the foundation of contemporary medical ethics. Hippocrates also argued that medical knowledge should be derived from a{{U}} (15) {{/U}}of the natural science and the logic of cause and effect relationships. In this{{U}} (16) {{/U}}thesis, On Air, Water, and Places, Hippocrates pointed out that human well-being is{{U}} (17) {{/U}}by the totality of environmental{{U}} (18) {{/U}}: living habits or lifestyle, climate, geography of the land, and the quality of air, and food.{{U}} (19) {{/U}}enough, concerns about our health and the quality of air, water, and places are{{U}} (20) {{/U}}very much written in twentieth century. |