Horacio Fabrega
Biographic Data
| ID | 3636263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Horacio Fabrega |
| GIVEN NAMES | Horacio |
| FAMILY NAME | Fabrega |
| SIGNATURE | FABREGA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1903 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Evolutionary semantics: Using NSM to model stages in human cognitive evolution
Cultural Formulation Guidelines
The outline for the Cultural Formulation (CF) introduced in DSM-IV does not present any method for collecting the required cultural information. The absence of specific guidelines and illustrative cases has hampered its wider use. This article offers a practical approach to preparing a Cultural Formulation as a component of culturally competent clinical care. We summarize the rationale for the four sections of the CF, describe the process of cond…
Framing the Rational in Fieldwork
The Place of Culture in DSM-IV
This paper critically reviews the process and outcome of an effort to enhance the cultural validity of DSM-IV and outlines recommendations to improve future diagnostic systems. An ordered presentation of the antecedents and the main phases of this developmental effort is followed by a content analysis of what was proposed and what was actually incorporated, and a conceptual analysis of underlying biases and their implications. The cultural effort…
Earliest Phases in the Evolution of Sickness and Healing
Sickness and healing constitute the root concepts that center medical anthropological inquiry and give the field its identity. Here, they are held to manifest a biological adaption designed by evolution that requires culture for its final realization. Sickness and healing thus provide anthropology with a bioculturalform that has changed in content and expression during cultural evolution. The early phases of this evolution, those bearing the most…
A Cultural Analysis of Adolescent Psychopathology
Behavior problems of adolescents have increasingly come to be examined as psychopathology. A medical/psychological view conflicts with a cultural interpretive approach. Material in the literature that bears on this topic is reviewed and analyzed critically. The goal is to illustrate how the concept of culture has been used to enhance understanding of adolescent psychopathology. Pertinent studies rely on differing methods, procedures, and conceptu…
Adolescent Psychiatry as a product of contemporary Anglo-American society
Toward a More Comprehensive Medical Anthropology: The Case of Adolescent Psychopathlogy
This article argues for a more comprehensive analytical approach in medical anthropology than is currently followed, one that combines attention to structural factors (political, economic, medical psychiatric), experiential symbolic expressions and meanings, and biological bodily features of disorders. We show how subject matter that may be defined as "adolescent psychopathology" would be better understood by a comprehensive approach than by part…
Tlaxcalan constructions of acute grief
Intercultural therapy: Themes, interpretations and practice
Witchcraft-explained childhood tragedies in Tlaxcala, and their medical sequelae
A cultural analysis of human behavioral breakdowns: An approach to the ontology and epistemology of psychiatric phenomena
The psychodynamic approach in American psychiatry: A case study in ethnomedicine
Culture and the psychosomatic tradition
The role of culture in a theory of psychiatric illness
The concept of somatization as a cultural and historical product of Western medicine
Somatization is handled as a concept that plays an important role in the contemporary clinical theory and practice of psychiatry and general medicine. A distinct biomedical epistemology and model of illness underlies use of the concept and gives it meaning. First, the nature of the assumptions about the medical problems described by the concept are outlined. Then, some of the cultural and historical aspects of Western medical history that shaped …
A plea for a broader ethnomedicine
Hispanic Mental Health Research: A Case for Cultural Psychiatry
Contemporary research involving Hispanic mental health is critically e-xamined. Selected problem areas that span a spectrum covering folk/traditional conceptualizations of mental illness, standardized concepts and methods employed in epidemiology, approaches to psychiatric diagnosis in biomedical settings, and more basic epistemological assumptions involving psychiatric nosology and theory receive systematic attention. The idea is developed that …
On Research Methodology for Ethnomedicine
Electrocardiograph ic Effects of Social Stress on Coronary-Prone (Type A) Individuals
Subjects selected for possession of either the Type A (coronary-prone) or Type B (coronary-resistant) behavior pattern interacted with a computer, while appearing to interact with a partner, in a formal competitive game of social strategy. Type A subjects exhibited greater impatience than Type B subjects. Computer analysis of the electrocardiogram revealed that social stimulation elicited larger ventricular electrophysiological responses (ST segm…
Medicine in Chinese Cultures: Comparative Studies of Health Care in Chinese and Other Societies
In order to assess American medical needs, systems in other countries are under review.In the case of China a conference on the comparative study of traditional and modem medicine in Chinese societies was held in 1974 and the forty-nine contributions are published here, grouped into five sections.The first 'Medical systems in Chinese societies', deals with historical perspectives and provides an excellent survey and discussion of traditional Chin…
Section 15 the ethnography of illness
The ethnography of illness
The quest for therapy in lower Zaire
Elementary systems of medicine
An Integrated Theory of Disease: Ladino-Mestizo Views of Disease in the Chiapas Highlands
This paper describes the beliefs about illness espoused by Spanish-speaking Mexicans from the Chiapas Highlands. The set of beliefs about illness entails explanations about its causes, mechanisms, manifestations, and consequences and for this reason can be viewed as constituting a theory about disease. The theory of disease described encompasses events and processes that outside observers would classify as mental, bodily, and social. To members o…
On the Specificity of Folk Illnesses
This study investigates the relationship that specific native illness terms have with illness manifestations consisting of various bodily symptoms and altered behaviors. A group of Zinacanteco medical practitioners were compared to a group of non-practitioners on their responses to a questionnaire which inquired about the linkage that exists between various illness terms and illness components. No significant differences resulted, and subject res…
Cultural Formulation Guidelines
The outline for the Cultural Formulation (CF) introduced in DSM-IV does not present any method for collecting the required cultural information. The absence of specific guidelines and illustrative cases has hampered its wider use. This article offers a practical approach to preparing a Cultural Formulation as a component of culturally competent clinical care. We summarize the rationale for the four sections of the CF, describe the process of cond…
The role of culture in a theory of psychiatric illness
Some Features of Zinacantecan Medical Knowledge
Earliest Phases in the Evolution of Sickness and Healing
Sickness and healing constitute the root concepts that center medical anthropological inquiry and give the field its identity. Here, they are held to manifest a biological adaption designed by evolution that requires culture for its final realization. Sickness and healing thus provide anthropology with a bioculturalform that has changed in content and expression during cultural evolution. The early phases of this evolution, those bearing the most…
Psychiatric implications of health and illness in a Maya Indian group: A preliminary statement
Culture, Behavior, and the Nervous System
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Fieldwork and the 'New Ethnography
Begging in a Southeastern Mexican City
Modes of begging and attitudes of patrons or clients are examined in the cathedral city of San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico. Figures are given for ethnic composition, age and sex distribution, and physical condition of San Cristobal beggars. Interviews identified factors that cause one to adopt begging—temporary unemployment, physical incapacity, family poverty, lack of family, and dissatisfaction with the few existing church and city welfare agenc…
A cultural analysis of human behavioral breakdowns: An approach to the ontology and epistemology of psychiatric phenomena
Part One: Ethnomedicine and medical science
(1978). Part One: Ethnomedicine and medical science. Medical Anthropology: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 11-24
Hispanic Mental Health Research: A Case for Cultural Psychiatry
Contemporary research involving Hispanic mental health is critically e-xamined. Selected problem areas that span a spectrum covering folk/traditional conceptualizations of mental illness, standardized concepts and methods employed in epidemiology, approaches to psychiatric diagnosis in biomedical settings, and more basic epistemological assumptions involving psychiatric nosology and theory receive systematic attention. The idea is developed that …
Health Maintenance among Peruvian Peasants
The manner in which Peruvian peasants use herbs in order to modify bodily disturbances is examined. First, social aspects of herb use are analyzed using the framework of symbolic interactionism. Then, the responses of forty peasants to inquiries regarding the specific uses of representative herbs are analyzed. The preceding issues are interpreted from the perspective of the actor's motivation to maintain his health in the harsh setting of the hig…
Evolutionary semantics: Using NSM to model stages in human cognitive evolution
Witchcraft-explained childhood tragedies in Tlaxcala, and their medical sequelae
The Langner items and acquiescence
Adolescent Psychiatry as a product of contemporary Anglo-American society
Toward a More Comprehensive Medical Anthropology: The Case of Adolescent Psychopathlogy
This article argues for a more comprehensive analytical approach in medical anthropology than is currently followed, one that combines attention to structural factors (political, economic, medical psychiatric), experiential symbolic expressions and meanings, and biological bodily features of disorders. We show how subject matter that may be defined as "adolescent psychopathology" would be better understood by a comprehensive approach than by part…
Intercultural therapy: Themes, interpretations and practice
Components of illness and type of medical practitioner: A comparative study
Further evidence on dimensionality of the index of psychophysiological stress
Language and cultural influences in the description of pain
Several lines of argument have been pursued in the attempt to study the meanings of pain descriptions in English. First, the component terms of pain descriptions were heuristically classified into primary, secondary, and tertiary groups. Attention was then given to historical features of the primary pain terms. These were handled as morphological structures possessed of a history which has included their entry into the lexicon and their progressi…
Beliefs about the Behavioral Effects of Disease: A Mathematical Analysis
Anthropologists who study cultural aspects of medicine have demonstrated the variability that exists in conceptualizations about disease (Frake I96I; Rubel I964). Though information of this type is plentiful, there has been little systematization of it and hence this area of anthropology has not shown a cumulative growth (Scotch I963). One of the current needs of the field of ethnomedicine the comparative study of disease with emphasis on cultura…
Behavioral science and medical education: A biobehavioral perspective
Ce travail s'interesse a l'influence des techniques de sur l'engagement affectif et calcule des consommateurs. Par le biais de d'une revue de la litterature sur les concepts de et d'engagement nous proposons les definitions de active et de personnalisation passive et emettons un certain nombre d'hypotheses concernant l'effet de ces techniques sur l’engagement affectif et calcule des consommateurs. Ces hypotheses sont testees par le biais de trois…
Folk-Lore of the Bribri and Brunka Indians in Costa Rica
Numeral Systems of the Costa Rican Indians
Low Income Medical Problem Patients: Some Medical and Behavioral Features
Horacio Fabrega, Jr., Richard J. Moore, John R. Strawn, Low Income Medical Problem Patients: Some Medical and Behavioral Features, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Dec., 1969), pp. 334-343
Validity features of a mental health questionnaire
Psychiatric implications of health and illness in a Maya Indian group: A preliminary statement
On the Specificity of Folk Illnesses
This study investigates the relationship that specific native illness terms have with illness manifestations consisting of various bodily symptoms and altered behaviors. A group of Zinacanteco medical practitioners were compared to a group of non-practitioners on their responses to a questionnaire which inquired about the linkage that exists between various illness terms and illness components. No significant differences resulted, and subject res…
Some Features of Zinacantecan Medical Knowledge
Begging in a Southeastern Mexican City
Modes of begging and attitudes of patrons or clients are examined in the cathedral city of San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico. Figures are given for ethnic composition, age and sex distribution, and physical condition of San Cristobal beggars. Interviews identified factors that cause one to adopt begging—temporary unemployment, physical incapacity, family poverty, lack of family, and dissatisfaction with the few existing church and city welfare agenc…
Ethnic differences in the outpatient use of a public-charity hospital
Ethnic differences in the outpatient use of a public-charity hospital. H Fabrega, Jr, and R E RobertsCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.62.7.936 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Social-Psychological Correlates of Physician Use by Economically Disadvantaged Negro Urban Residents
A longitudinal study evaluating the use of physicians was conducted using a sample of economically disadvantaged Negro urban residents. Groups differing in degree of physician contact were compared on a variety of sociopsychological measures. Initial results formed a theoretically consistent pattern and offered strong empirical support for a proposed sociopsychological model of health behavior. However, statistically controlling for age and sex h…
Health Maintenance among Peruvian Peasants
The manner in which Peruvian peasants use herbs in order to modify bodily disturbances is examined. First, social aspects of herb use are analyzed using the framework of symbolic interactionism. Then, the responses of forty peasants to inquiries regarding the specific uses of representative herbs are analyzed. The preceding issues are interpreted from the perspective of the actor's motivation to maintain his health in the harsh setting of the hig…
Toward a Model of Illness Behavior
Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology, 308 Linton Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich. 48823
An Integrated Theory of Disease: Ladino-Mestizo Views of Disease in the Chiapas Highlands
This paper describes the beliefs about illness espoused by Spanish-speaking Mexicans from the Chiapas Highlands. The set of beliefs about illness entails explanations about its causes, mechanisms, manifestations, and consequences and for this reason can be viewed as constituting a theory about disease. The theory of disease described encompasses events and processes that outside observers would classify as mental, bodily, and social. To members o…
Problems Implicit in the Cultural and Social Study of Depression
This paper reviews issues and questions that are tied to the study of psychiatric disease in relation to social systems. The specific focus is on the Western disease depression. The first part deals with problems arising when depression is examined in relation to culture. This part, which is largely analytical, points to problems inherent in the field of cultural psychiatry. The second part addresses problems involved in the study of depression i…
The Need for an Ethnomedical Science: The study of medical systems comparatively has important implications for the social and biological sciences.
Ethnomedicine is an intellectual area which embraces theoretical concerns that are relevant to both the social and biological sciences. The relation which exists between disease, social behavior, and human adaptation constitutes the primary subject matter of ethnomedicine. This relation is examined in terms of man's unique capacities for symbolization and culture. Since ethnomedical generalizations explain how social groups deal with a generic di…
The Langner items and acquiescence
Behavioral science and medical education: A biobehavioral perspective
Ce travail s'interesse a l'influence des techniques de sur l'engagement affectif et calcule des consommateurs. Par le biais de d'une revue de la litterature sur les concepts de et d'engagement nous proposons les definitions de active et de personnalisation passive et emettons un certain nombre d'hypotheses concernant l'effet de ces techniques sur l’engagement affectif et calcule des consommateurs. Ces hypotheses sont testees par le biais de trois…
Further evidence on dimensionality of the index of psychophysiological stress
Language and cultural influences in the description of pain
Several lines of argument have been pursued in the attempt to study the meanings of pain descriptions in English. First, the component terms of pain descriptions were heuristically classified into primary, secondary, and tertiary groups. Attention was then given to historical features of the primary pain terms. These were handled as morphological structures possessed of a history which has included their entry into the lexicon and their progressi…
Fieldwork and the 'New Ethnography
Disease Viewed as a Symbolic Category
Comparison of Illness Episodes in a Pluralistic Setting
Episodes of illness in two different groups of women of the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, were compared using a longitudinal-panel design. The data reported are part of a larger study that concentrated on family units from representative cultural groupings of this region. The method of procedure facilitated the retrieval and analysis of different types of symptoms that have salience in the native medical perspectives of the people. Queries regard…
Group differences in the structure of illness
The scope of ethnomedical science
Perceived illness and its treatment. A naturalistic study in social medicine
This is the initial report of a longitudinal study conducted in a developing, culturally heterogeneous society. The study compares figures of frequency and length of perceived illness, subjective reports of biological and behavioural symptoms, and use of medical facilities in response to episodes of illness by female heads of households from two highly distinctive social-ethnic groups. Despite differences in socioeconomic status and cultural beli…
Psychology (33 works) · Medicine (32 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (9 works) · Traditional medicine (9 works) · Disease (8 works)