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

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Boaz, Noel Thomas

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Wiley, c2002.Description: 1 online resourceISBN:

9780471352617
9780471212997 (electronic bk.)

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DDC classification:

616.07/1 21

LOC classification:

RB151 .B64 2002

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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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