Evolutionary Medicine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781605352602
Subjects: Diseases, causes and theories of causation; Human evolution; Environmentally induced diseases
Description: "Stearns and Medzhitov offer a textbook on evolutionary aspects of medicine, some of which provide immediate answers to help relieve suffering, and others of which can clarify understanding about organisms and their relationship to the environment and each other. They cover evolutionary thinking, what a patient is, what a disease is, defenses, pathogen evolution, cancer, reproductive medicine, mismatch, mental disorders, individual health versus population health, and open questions and other issues." -- Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com).