Western Diseases

ISBN-13: 9780521617376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 236 str.

Tessa Pollard

Opis

A synthesis of current understandings of evolutionary processes, and of the biology and epidemiology of disease.

Recenzje

'… Western Diseases persuades us that we can only understand health and disease in an evolutionary context.' American Scientist

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. An evolutionary history of human disease; 3. Obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease; 4. The thrifty genotype versus thrifty phenotype debate: efforts to explain between population variation in rates of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease; 5. Reproductive cancers; 6. Reproductive function, breastfeeding and the menopause; 7. Asthma and allergic disease; 8. Depression and stress; 9. Conclusion.