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Evolving health : the origins of illness and how the modern world is making us sick / Noel T. Boaz.

Boaz, Noel Thomas. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0471352616
  • ISBN: 9780471352617
  • Physical Description: vi, 250 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Wiley, [2002]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-239) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Achieving adaptive normality, your evolutionary birthright -- How our health evolved -- An evolutionary child's birthright: perinatal and pediatric diseases -- The virus war -- Cellular stress: a general model for cancer -- Breast cancer, prostate diseases, and cancers of the reproductive system -- Heart disease and high blood pressure: a story of fish and chips -- Why we smoke -- Diabetes mellitus and the "thrifty genotype" -- Gout, liver enzymes, and global climate change -- Back pain, bad knees, and flatfeet -- Gut diseases -- The evolution of psychiatric disorders -- Uncivilized solutions : reestablishing adaptive normality in your life.
Subject:
Diseases > Causes and theories of causation.
Human evolution.
Adaptation (Biology)
Health behavior.

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