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Title: Evolutionary Medicine by Wenda Trevathan, James J. McKenna, Euclid O. Smith ISBN: 0-19-510356-4 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Some good chapters on fascinating new field
Comment: This book applies Darwin's theory of evolution to medicine and that's very exciting. It's exciting because the theory of evolution turns out to be a framework with impressive explanatory power in the area of health and disease. Why do babies in modern Western societies show more excessive crying than infants of !Kung San hunter-gatherers? What makes many women that give birth in modern high-tech hospitals still unsatisfied with the process? Why do so many modern women get breast cancer? Evolutionary medicine proposes answers, sometimes controversial, but definitely almost always worth considering. Why only four stars then? Perhaps it's because the field is still maturing but I thought only six of the eighteen chapters of the book showed clear arguments, high-quality writing, and didn't require a Ph.D. in biochemistry to follow the details. (I liked the chapters about evolutionary perspectives on infant crying, sudden infant death syndrome, obstetrics, nutrition, psychiatry, and breast cancer). And finally, readers should keep in mind that "Evolutionary Medicine" is a university textbook. For a more accessible introduction into this exciting new field they should read Nesse and Williams' "Why We Get Sick".
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Title: Evolution in Health and Disease by Stephen C. Stearns ISBN: 0198504454 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine by Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams ISBN: 0679746749 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Evolution of Infectious Disease by Paul M. Ewald, Paul W. Ewald ISBN: 0195111397 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr, Jared Diamond ISBN: 0465044263 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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