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

By: Publication details: New York : Wiley, c2002.Description: vi, 250 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0471352616
  • 9780471352617
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.071 21 BOA
NLM classification:
  • QZ 40
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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

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index.

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