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

By: Boaz, Noel Thomas.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Wiley, c2002Description: 1 online resource.ISBN: 9780471352617; 9780471212997 (electronic bk.).Call No.: RB151 .B64 2002 Subject(s): Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation | Human evolution | Adaptation (Biology) | Health behaviorDDC classification: 616.07/1 Online resources: Electronic Resources
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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