Evolving health the origins of illness and how the modern world is making us sick / [electronic resource] :
Noel T. Boaz.
- New York, N.Y. : Wiley, c2002.
- 1 online resource.
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.
9780471352617 9780471212997 (electronic bk.)
Diseases--Causes and theories of causation. Human evolution. Adaptation (Biology) Health behavior.