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1. 1. Sick Societies

   Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony

   

   A provocative anthropological critique arguing that some cultures maintain practices that actively harm individual and collective well-being, this book surveys cross-cultural examples—such as ritual mutilation, infanticide, extreme dietary restrictions, and social institutions that cause chronic disease or premature death—to show how cultural traditions can be maladaptive. It challenges strict cultural relativism by proposing that objective standards of human welfare and health can and should be used to evaluate practices, examines why harmful customs persist, and discusses possibilities and ethical grounds for outside intervention and cultural change to reduce needless suffering.

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