Archeopathology

Abstract

The author reftects upon the meaning of «being ill», which according to him is an biographic event. Thus, illness can only be understood within the frame of the two evolutionaries guidelines of mankind: the biological and the cultural. Each pa­tient shares with all living nature anarchaic bio­logical structure with millions of years, wich is shaped by cultural factors.

Man declares himself ill when he feels that the relationship body-environment is altered in is homeostatic balance.

Considering these grounds, the author explains some common diseases such as myocardial in­ farction and bronchial metaplasia, from the po­int of view of archeopathology.