Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine - Softcover

Nesse MD, Randolph M.; Williams, George C.

 
9780679746744: Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0679746749 ISBN 13: 9780679746744
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

The next time you get sick, consider this before picking up the aspirin: your body may be doing exactly what it's supposed to. In this ground-breaking book, two pioneers of the science of Darwinian medicine argue that illness as well as the factors that predispose us toward it are subject to the same laws of natural selection that otherwise make our bodies such miracles of design.  Among the concerns they raise:

When may a fever be beneficial?
Why do pregnant women get morning sickness?
How do certain viruses "manipulate" their hosts into infecting others?
What evolutionary factors may be responsible for depression and panic disorder?

Deftly summarizing research on disorders ranging from allergies to Alzheimer's, and form cancer to Huntington's chorea, Why We Get Sick, answers these questions and more.  The result is a book that will revolutionize our attitudes toward illness and will intrigue and instruct lay person and medical practitioners alike.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Randolph M Nesse, M.D., is a practicing physcian and professor and associate chair for education and academic affairs in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School.

George C. Williams, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus of ecology and evolution at the State University at Stony Brook and editor of The Quarterly Review of Biology.

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Verlag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679746749
ISBN 13 
9780679746744
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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