Evolutionary Medicine
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 October 1999
- ISBN 9780195103557
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 236x160x27 mm
- Weight 794 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 halftones, 33 line illustrations 0
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Short description:
Evolutionary Medicine is based upon the view that many contemporary social, psychological, and physical illnesses are related to an incompatability between current human lifestyles and environments and the conditions under which human biology developed. This book, featuring contributions from many of the leading workers in this devloping area, provides a good introduction and overview to this emerging field. The audience will be interdisciplinary, including evoltuionary biologists, anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists, biomedical and clinical researchers, and some clinicians.
MoreLong description:
Evolution is the single most important idea in modern biology, shedding light on virtually every biological question, from the shape of orchid blossoms to the distribution of species across the planet. Until recently, however, the theory has had little impact on medical research or practice. Evolutionary Medicine shows how this is beginning to change.
Collecting work from leaders in the field, this volume describes an array of new and innovative approaches to human health that are based on an appreciation of our long evolutionary history. For example, it shows how evolution helps to explain the complex relationship between our immune systems and the virulence and transmission of human viruses. It also shows how comparisons between how we live today and how our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived thousands of years ago illuminate a variety of contemporary ills, including obesity, lower-back pain, and insomnia.
Evolutionary Medicine covers issues at every stage of life, from infancy (colic, jaundice, SIDS, parent-infant sleep struggles, ear infections, breast-feeding, asthma) to adulthood (sexually transmitted diseases, depression, overeating, addictions, child abuse, cardiovascular disease, breast and ovarian cancer) to old age (osteoporosis, geriatric sleep problems). Written for a wide range of students and researchers in medicine, anthropology, and psychology , it is an invaluable guide to this rapidly developing field.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Is Neonatal Jaundice a Disease or an Adaptive Process?
Infant Crying Behavior and Colic: An Interpretation in Evolutionary Perspective
Evolutionary Pediatrics and Implications for SIDS
Otitis Media: An Evolutionary Perspective
The Evolutionary Ecology of Childhood Asthma
Evolutionary Perspectives on the Onset of Puberty
Incest Avoidance: Clinical Implications of the Evolutionary Perspective
Evolutionary Obstetrics
Darwinian Medicine and the Emergence of Allergy
Using Evolution as a Tool for Controlling Infectious Diseases
Evolutionary Control of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Viruses
Paleolithic Nutrition Revisited
Human Evolution, Low Back Pain, and Dual-Level Control
What Darwinian Medicine Offers Psychiatry
Evolution, Substance Abuse, and Addiction
Menopause in Evolutionary Perspective
Breast Cancer in Evolutionary Context
Evolutionary Perspectives on Chronic Degenerative Diseases
