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Evolutionary Medicine
Evolutionary Medicine is a textbook intended for use in undergraduate, graduate, medical school, and continuing medical education (CME) courses. Its professional illustrations and summaries of chapters and sections make its messages readily accessible.
Chapter 1 introduces evolutionary thinking about both current dynamic processes and the deep patterns of history and relationship.
Chapter 2 asks, "What is a patient?" and answers from a series of perspectives.
Chapter 3 asks, "What is a disease?" Some causes are found in patients; others in pathogens; many in the interactions between them.
Chapter 4 discusses the nature of defenses, the strategies that determine how they are deployed, and their costs as well as their benefits.
Chapter 5 discusses pathogen evolution: the evolution of intrinsic virulence, of evasion and manipulation of host defenses, and of resistance to treatment, and how therapy might be made evolution-proof.
Chapter 6 describes cancer as an evolutionary process with a history traced in the genome and with major implications for treatment.
Chapter 7 discusses conflicts in reproduction: between mother and offspring, between maternally and paternally derived genes in the offspring, and among siblings. It also discusses menstruation, menopause, and the connection between invasive placentas and metastatic cancer.
Chapter 8 discusses mismatches to modern environments, including obesity, cardiovascular disease, and autoimmune diseases.
Chapter 9 discusses evolutionary perspectives on addiction, anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism, and schizophrenia.
Chapter 10 explores the tension between individual and group interests and shows how medicine is creating new problems while solving old ones.
Chapter 11 starts with questions that have not yet been answered, discusses why we have not chosen to address some issues, and concludes by comparing classical with evolutionary medicine.
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Available to qualified adopters, the Instructor's Resource Library includes the following resources:
*Textbook Figures & Tables: All figures (line-art illustrations and photographs) and tables from the textbook, provided as both high- and low-resolution JPEGs. All have been formatted and optimized for excellent projection quality. Also included are ready-to-use PowerPoint presentations of all figures and tables.
*Lecture Presentations: For each chapter of the textbook, the authors have prepared ready-to-use lecture presentations that include text reviewing the key facts and concepts from the chapter, along with selected figures and tables.
Chapter 1 introduces evolutionary thinking about both current dynamic processes and the deep patterns of history and relationship.
Chapter 2 asks, "What is a patient?" and answers from a series of perspectives.
Chapter 3 asks, "What is a disease?" Some causes are found in patients; others in pathogens; many in the interactions between them.
Chapter 4 discusses the nature of defenses, the strategies that determine how they are deployed, and their costs as well as their benefits.
Chapter 5 discusses pathogen evolution: the evolution of intrinsic virulence, of evasion and manipulation of host defenses, and of resistance to treatment, and how therapy might be made evolution-proof.
Chapter 6 describes cancer as an evolutionary process with a history traced in the genome and with major implications for treatment.
Chapter 7 discusses conflicts in reproduction: between mother and offspring, between maternally and paternally derived genes in the offspring, and among siblings. It also discusses menstruation, menopause, and the connection between invasive placentas and metastatic cancer.
Chapter 8 discusses mismatches to modern environments, including obesity, cardiovascular disease, and autoimmune diseases.
Chapter 9 discusses evolutionary perspectives on addiction, anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism, and schizophrenia.
Chapter 10 explores the tension between individual and group interests and shows how medicine is creating new problems while solving old ones.
Chapter 11 starts with questions that have not yet been answered, discusses why we have not chosen to address some issues, and concludes by comparing classical with evolutionary medicine.
RESOURCES
Instructor's Resource Library
Available to qualified adopters, the Instructor's Resource Library includes the following resources:
*Textbook Figures & Tables: All figures (line-art illustrations and photographs) and tables from the textbook, provided as both high- and low-resolution JPEGs. All have been formatted and optimized for excellent projection quality. Also included are ready-to-use PowerPoint presentations of all figures and tables.
*Lecture Presentations: For each chapter of the textbook, the authors have prepared ready-to-use lecture presentations that include text reviewing the key facts and concepts from the chapter, along with selected figures and tables.
306 pages
Published August 1, 2015
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March 13, 2017
في مواضيع الكتاب (التي تتناول نظرية التطور في الطب) العديد مما أظنه تناقضات أو مواضع ضعف، وأظن أنها تعود لقصور نظرية التطور في تفسير الحياة تفسيرا شموليا (يشمل جميع الكائنات الحية بعلاقاتها ببعضها وبجميع صفاتها)، لن أتناول هذه الأمور بالتفصيل لأنني لست باحثا، لكن يكفي القول أن الكتاب أكد لي أن نظرية التطور في الطب تنطوي على العديد من مواضع الضعف
April 9, 2022
Excellent review of evolutionary underpinnings of illness and disease. The chapter on psychiatric illnesses was not as fleshed out as I hoped.
January 15, 2021
These textbook explores the emerging field of evolutionary medicine and lays out the scientific evidence for looking at human health from an evolutionary perspective. The book is written at a high level and would be most appropriate for a graduate level course or an advanced undergraduate. Many of the chapter assume the reader is well-versed in human physiology, specifically, immunology. The authors introduce evolutionary principles adequately enough and Chapter 2 focuses on the evolutionary history of humans. Life history evolution is also emphasized and is indeed key to understanding many of the points in the book. I found Chapter 8 very compelling as they explained how mismatches in biology and culture can explain many common health issues we face today.
June 10, 2021
Clear, concise, logical
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