Evolving health : the origins of illness and how the modern world is making us sick /
Boaz, Noel Thomas.
Evolving health : the origins of illness and how the modern world is making us sick / Noel T. Boaz. - New York : Wiley, c2002. - vi, 250 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index.
Contents
Introduction.
1. Achieving Adaptive Normality, Your Evolutionary
Birthright.
2. How Our Health Evolved.
3. An Evolutionary Child's Birthright:
Perinatal and Pediatric Diseases.
4. The Virus War.
5. Cellular Stress: A General Model for Cancer.
6. Breast Cancer, Prostate Diseases, and Cancers
of the Reproductive System.
7. Heart Disease and High Blood Pressure:
A Story of Fish and Chips.
8. Why We Smoke.
9. Diabetes Mellitus and the "Thrifty Genotype".
10. Gout, Liver Enzymes, and Global Climate Change.
11. Back Pain, Bad Knees, and Flatfeet.
12. Gut Diseases.
13. The Evolution of Psychiatric Disorders.
14. Uncivilized Solutions: Reestablishing
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Diseases--Causes and theories of causation.
Human evolution.
Adaptation (Biology)
Health behavior.
Disease--etiology.
Adaptation, Psychological.
Culture.
Evolution.
Life Style.
WA 100 B662e 2002
Evolving health : the origins of illness and how the modern world is making us sick / Noel T. Boaz. - New York : Wiley, c2002. - vi, 250 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index.
Contents
Introduction.
1. Achieving Adaptive Normality, Your Evolutionary
Birthright.
2. How Our Health Evolved.
3. An Evolutionary Child's Birthright:
Perinatal and Pediatric Diseases.
4. The Virus War.
5. Cellular Stress: A General Model for Cancer.
6. Breast Cancer, Prostate Diseases, and Cancers
of the Reproductive System.
7. Heart Disease and High Blood Pressure:
A Story of Fish and Chips.
8. Why We Smoke.
9. Diabetes Mellitus and the "Thrifty Genotype".
10. Gout, Liver Enzymes, and Global Climate Change.
11. Back Pain, Bad Knees, and Flatfeet.
12. Gut Diseases.
13. The Evolution of Psychiatric Disorders.
14. Uncivilized Solutions: Reestablishing
0471352616 9780471352617
Diseases--Causes and theories of causation.
Human evolution.
Adaptation (Biology)
Health behavior.
Disease--etiology.
Adaptation, Psychological.
Culture.
Evolution.
Life Style.
WA 100 B662e 2002