description: Sharon Moalem proposes that common diseases came into existence for very good reasons - for example, how diabetes may be a by-product of a mechanism that helped humans survive the Ice Age, and why Asians can't drink as much alcohol as Europeans. She also looks at how the modern world influences disease.
language: English
title: Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
titlecomplete: Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
genres: Evolution, Biology, Medicine, Disease, Science, Genetics, Medical, Nonfiction, School, Health
ratings_count: 8270
publisher: William Morrow & Company