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Great, concise intro to an interesting topic. I have written this down on my notepad:

<blockquote>A condition usually only becomes meaningful once a cause has been identified for it.</blockquote>

And again your field reminds me of mine! We largely explore this notion when we study *diagnosis* &#128521;

You live in my heart &#128536;

You haven't posted in such a long while that I missed this.

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To paraphrase Nietzsche's 'men will rather will nothingness than not will', I'll say that 'men will rather invent causes than leave things to chance'.

There's so much psychologically involved in this. For instance, if you got the disease cos you were morally at fault, then there's hope that you can change your situation by righting the fault/wrong, by making amends, by asking forgiveness, etc. 

So I think it's partly people stubborn [meliorism](https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/meliorism) - their belief that there's always something they can do to change their situation into something that agrees with their desires - that makes them unsatisfied with 'chance' being given as a reason. 

At any rate, it serves us very well, evolutionarily, to always look for causes, even when there's none to be found.

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> supernatural causes tend to be features of traditional, pre-industrial communities

Trying to explain something without the necessary knowledge to properly understand the issue in question makes people go down the path of supernatural beliefs and use those beliefs to explain pretty much anything they can possibly imagine. Whether they are healthy or sick, a superstitious person will attribute a supernatural reason for it. 

Looking forward for more of your articles mate, cheers!

Hey @zest

Interesting intro to a great series/topic.

>Sufferers often to need to "make sense" of what has happened and why

Thats it. Finding out what's up  with the "why" is even more important than treating the actual consequence which is the disease. This topic gonna be uniquely very interesting. Looking forwards to other parts. Thanks.

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> Biomedicine is more interested in answering "what?" rather than "why?"

The point of bio-medicine on this is totally correct i think. Cause when someone is injured, its more important to cure him rather than looking fr the reason. 

A good article bro. :)

Looking forward to reading part 2....

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> When someone becomes ill he/she often asks "Why has this happened to me?" or "Have I done anything to deserve this?"

Exactly... in this part of the world, it is not uncommon for people to attach superstition to happenings (even something like illnesses) - they tend to believe that ill-health has spiritual undertone.. but they sometimes forget that there could be many causation to this particular phenomenon.

You did an expository piece buddy.

It has never occurred to me to give chance to this kind of thinking as to find out the "whys" of diseases. I am always particularly interested in the symptoms like most people out there. But this post will certainly influence my perspectives from now henceforth. Thanks

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During my undergrad studies in sociology I came across such theories. It's a bit hazy now but memories and thoughts about illness came flooding back. As an African, many illnesses and general misfortune in life is seen as either witchcraft or upset ancestors. As primitive as it may sound, these notions still hold fast today amongst young people too. I feel like researching this topic again...

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Interesting topic, will be waiting for part 2 ^_^

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