Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
Evolutionary Thinking in Medicine de Alexandra Alvergne

Evolutionary Thinking in Medicine: Advances in the Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behaviour

Editat de Alexandra Alvergne, Crispin Jenkinson, Charlotte Faurie
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mai 2018

Observăm în Evolutionary Thinking in Medicine o schimbare de paradigmă esențială: abordarea „conflictului fetal-matern” nu doar ca fenomen biologic, ci ca algoritm clinic pentru înțelegerea rezultatelor adverse în sarcina umană. Analizând dilema obstetrică a travaliului obstrucționat, volumul propune o metodologie de diagnostic ce depășește simptomatologia imediată, căutând cauzele proximale în adaptarea evolutivă a speciei noastre. Găsim în această primă ediție o structură riguroasă, care ghidează cititorul de la fundamentele teoretice către aplicații complexe în cardiologie și oncologie. De exemplu, capitolul dedicat strategiilor darwiniene pentru evitarea rezistenței la medicamente în cancer oferă un protocol de gândire strategică pentru oncologi, transformând biologia evoluționistă dintr-o disciplină abstractă într-un instrument de management terapeutic. Pe linia clinică a lucrării Evolutionary Medicine de Stephen C. Stearns, dar cu un accent mult mai pronunțat pe politici de sănătate publică și practică medicală directă, acest manual integrează date despre nutriție (raportul omega-6/omega-3) și sănătate mintală (binge eating) într-un cadru coerent. Structura progresivă a cărții facilitează tranziția de la originile dezvoltării sănătății la patologiile civilizației moderne, fiecare capitol fiind susținut de casete explicative și glosare care fac informația accesibilă atât cercetătorilor, cât și practicienilor. Recomandăm acest volum pentru rigoarea cu care tratează amprentele evolutive asupra fiziopatologiei cardiovasculare, oferind o perspectivă integrată asupra omului modern.

Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 57610 lei

Preț vechi: 60643 lei
-5%

Puncte Express: 864
Paperback 57610 lei
Hardback 76487 lei

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 28 mai-11 iunie

 Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319806341
ISBN-10: 3319806343
Pagini: 396
Ilustrații: XIV, 382 p. 37 illus., 17 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2016
Editura: Springer
Colecția Advances in the Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behaviour
Seria Advances in the Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behaviour

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte profesioniștilor din sănătate care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile biologice ale bolilor cronice și acute. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă sistemică asupra medicinei, învățând să aplice principii evoluționiste în decizii clinice și de politici publice. Este o resursă indispensabilă pentru a înțelege de ce anumite tratamente eșuează din cauza rezistenței evolutive și cum putem adapta protocoalele medicale la biologia umană reală, nu doar la simptome izolate.

Despre autor

Volumul este coordonat de o echipă de experți de renume. Alexandra Alvergne este specialistă în antropologie evoluționistă, cercetările sale concentrându-se pe intersecția dintre biologie, sănătate și comportament uman. Alături de ea, Crispin Jenkinson aduce o vastă experiență în metodologie și rezultatele raportate de pacienți, fiind profesor la Universitatea Oxford. Charlotte Faurie completează echipa editorială cu expertiza sa în ecologie umană și biologie evoluționistă. Împreună, acești editori au reușit să sintetizeze contribuțiile unor cercetători de top pentru a oferi o viziune unitară asupra modului în care trecutul nostru biologic modelează medicina contemporană.

Descriere scurtă

The aim of this edited book is to provide health professionals, across a wide variety of specialisms, with a targeted access to evolutionary medicine. Throughout the book, the views of both medical and evolutionary scientists on the latest relevant research is presented with a focus on practical implications. The inclusion of boxes explaining the theoretical background as well as both a glossary for technical terms and a lay summary for non- specialists enable medical researchers, public health professionals, policy makers, physicians, students, scholars and the public alike to quickly and easily access appropriate information. This edited volume is thus relevant to anyone keen on finding out how evolutionary medicine can improve the health and well-being of people. 



Cuprins

Preface.- Chapter 1: Applying evolutionary thinking in medicine: an introduction.- Chapter 2: “Foetal-maternal conflicts” and adverse outcomes in human pregnancies.- Chapter 3: Obstructed labour: the classic obstetric dilemma and beyond.- Chapter 4: Bottle feeding: the impact on postpartum depression, birth spacing and autism.- Chapter 5: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.- Chapter 6: The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: adaptation reconsidered.- Chapter 7: Is calculus relevant to survival? Managing the evolutionary novelty of modern education.- Chapter 8: Binge eating, Disinhibition and obesity.- Chapter 9: Evolutionary aspects of the dietary omega-6/omega-3 fatty acid ratio: medical implications.- Chapter 10: Evolutionary paradigms in cardiology: the case of chronic heart failure.- Chapter 11: Evolutionary imprints on cardiovascular physiology and pathophysiology.- Chapter 12: Darwinian Strategies to Avoid the Evolution ofDrug Resistance During Cancer Treatment.- Chapter 13: Why chemotherapy does not work: cancer genome evolution and the illusion of oncogene addiction.- Chapter 14: Evolution, Infection, and Cancer.- Chapter 15: Microbes, Parasites and Immune diseases.- Chapter 16: Evolutionary principles and Host Defense.- Chapter 17: Helminth immunoregulation and Multiple Sclerosis treatment.- Chapter 18: Inflammaging and its role in ageing and age-related diseases.- Chapter 19: Dementias of the Alzheimer type: views through the lens of evolutionary biology suggest amyloid-driven brain aging is balanced against host defence.- Chapter 20: The Evolutionary Etiologies of Autism Spectrum and Psychotic-Affective Spectrum Disorders.- Chapter 21: Why are humans vulnerable to Alzheimer's Disease?.- Chapter 22: Evolutionary approaches to depression: prospects and limitations.- Chapter 23: The ups and downs of placebos. 

Recenzii

“This book challenges the current thinking on some of the basics of disease. … This is a book for the visionaries and researchers in medicine, to provoke thought and expand the realm of possibilities for future research. … this is a book for those whose careers are more focused on questioning the status quo and where medicine should be headed. For all its controversial ideas, it is a very interesting and thought-provoking book.” (Vincent F. Carr, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2016)

Notă biografică

Alexandra Alvergne is Associate Professor in Biocultural Anthropology at Oxford University and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College in the University of Oxford. She trained as a human behavioural ecologist in France, focusing on the evolutionary and ecological determinants of male reproductive and parental behaviour. She then held a Newton International Fellowship in the Anthropology Department at University College London, where she researched how biological and cultural evolutionary processes intersect in shaping diversity in health decision-making, particularly contraceptive uptake. Now in post at Oxford University, she runs the course “Evolutionary thinking in medicine” for students in Human Sciences (BA), Archeology & Anthropology (BA) and Medical Anthropology (MSc), and she is developing research programs linking evolution, medicine and anthropology.
 
Charlotte Faurie is a CNRS researcher in Human Evolutionary Biology at the Institutefor Evolutionary Sciences in Montpellier University, France. She trained as an evolutionary biologist, focusing on the evolution of the polymorphism of hand preference in human populations. She then held a Marie Curie Post-doctoral Fellowship in the UK, in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at Sheffield University, where she investigated the effects of competitive and cooperative interactions among siblings on life-history traits. Back in France, she focused on questions about parental investment, and how sexual selection shapes the evolution of cooperation in humans. She currently leads research programs on human genetic and behavioural adaptations, and on the medicalization of birth. She teaches evolutionary biology and medicine in several master’s programs in France. She is also a student at the Medical School of Montpellier.
 
Crispin Jenkinson is Professor of Health Services Research, and Director of the Health Services Research Unit (HSRU), at the Nuffield Department of Population Health and a Senior Research Fellow of Harris Manchester College in the University of Oxford. He graduated from Bedford College (University of London) before coming to Oxford where he gained an MSc in Psychology and then undertook research on the psychological impact of long-term illness for a DPhil. Prior to joining the HSRU in 1992, he was a research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. His main research interests include patient reported outcomes and health status measurement, the evaluation of patient experiences of medical care, and methodology. He has extensive experience of developing and validating outcome measures and, in collaboration with others, has conducted randomised controlled trials in which such instruments have been primary end-points.  

Caracteristici

This is the first book of evolutionary medicine organized by medical subfields Provides a truly inter-disciplinary perspective, with contributions from medics, anthropologists, psychologist and biologists Highlights the importance of evolution in understanding health and disease in humans Includes the views of both evolutionists and medics on the latest relevant medical research? Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras