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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boaz, Noel Thomas
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Wiley, [2002]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.