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The preceding chapter described critically important master roles or behavioral patterns by which individuals of a society are integrated into a viable system, presenting a more or less united front to the environment. But the health of a society will be at risk and the biochemical and physiologic precursors of disease will be set in motion unless its members can act out the behavioral demands imposed by these patterns.
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Henry, J.P., Stephens, P.M. (1977). Inherited behavioral patterns as social assets. In: Stress, Health, and the Social Environment. Topics in Environmental Physiology and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6363-0_3
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