Survival of the Sickest
Subtitle: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity
By: Sharon Moalem with Jonathan Prince
Contributors: Prince, Jonathan
Edition: printing (1)
Publisher: Harper; HarperPerennial
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780007256549
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Disease susceptibility; Genetic aspects; Human evolution
Description: Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? 
Did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? 
Why are some people immune to HIV? 
Can your genes be turned on — or off? 

Joining the ranks of modern myth busters, Dr Sharon Moalem turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies and our health. By re- examining evolutionary history, Dr Moalem reveals how many of the conditions that are diseases today actually gave our ancestors a leg up in the survival sweepstakes. But Survival of the Sickest doesn't stop there. It goes on to demonstrate just how little modern medicine really understands about human health, and offers a new way of thinking that can help all of us live longer, healthier lives.
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Notes: UK
Originally published: London: HarperCollins, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Ironing It Out; title: A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the; title: Temperature Go Down; title: Ihe Cholesterol Also Rises; title: Hey, Bud, Can You Do; title: Me a Fava?; title: Of Microbes and Men; title: Jump into the Gene Pool; title: Methyl Madness:; title: Road to the Final Phenotype; title: Ihat's Life: Why You and Your; title: iPod Must Die; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes; title: Index