Part Iii: Comanche Ghost Sickness: A Biocultural Perspective

J. Neil Henderson; Kedar K. Adour

doi:10.1080/01459740.1981.9986982

Part Iii: Comanche Ghost Sickness: A Biocultural Perspective

J. Neil Henderson, Kedar K. Adour

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A biocultural perspective is used to integrate organic and psychogenic explanations of Comanche ghost sickness, a peripheral facial paralysis. Emphasis is placed upon the underlying biological conditions that predispose the ghost sickness victim and the social utility of the culturally patterned disease expression. An idealized disease cosmology traces the biobehavioral route to ghost sickness symptoms.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	195-205
Number of pages	11
Journal	Medical Anthropology
Volume	5
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.1981.9986982
State	Published - Mar 1 1981

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