Tessa M. Pollard

Western Diseases

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A synthesis of current understandings of evolutionary processes, and of the biology and epidemiology of disease.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780521851800
• ISBN-10: 0521851807
• Artikelnr.: 23428892

Autorenporträt

Tessa Pollard graduated from the University of Oxford with degrees in Human Sciences and Biological Anthropology. She is currently a lecturer in Biological Anthropology at Durham University. She conducts research on risk factors for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes in western and westernising populations.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. An evolutionary history of human disease
3. Obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease
4. The thrifty genotype versus thrifty phenotype debate: efforts to explain between population variation in rates of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease
5. Reproductive cancers
6. Reproductive function, breastfeeding and the menopause
7. Asthma and allergic disease
8. Depression and stress
9. Conclusion.

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1. Introduction; 2. An evolutionary history of human disease; 3. Obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease; 4. The thrifty genotype versus thrifty phenotype debate: efforts to explain between population variation in rates of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease; 5. Reproductive cancers; 6. Reproductive function, breastfeeding and the menopause; 7. Asthma and allergic disease; 8. Depression and stress; 9. Conclusion.

Rezensionen

'... a powerful and compelling evolutionary analysis of the 'diseases of civilisation', a stellar achievement ... every medical student, practitioner, and researcher in the field of human health should read it.' Peter T. Ellison, John Cowles Professor of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University