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Doves, Diplomats, and Diabetes
Milind Watve
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Description for Doves, Diplomats, and Diabetes
Hardback. Notable for its coherent explanation of the diversity of processes as much as for its exposure of the gaps in our knowledge, this volume outlines a new paradigm for understanding diabetes based on Darwinian medical precepts of the disease's evolution. Num Pages: 380 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MJGD; MMF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 184 x 26. Weight in Grams: 892.
Darwinian medicine looks at the ecological and evolutionary roots of disease. A disease is an interaction between a genome and its biotic or abiotic environment and therefore a disease is essentially an ecological process. Good understanding of ecology and a Darwinian way of thinking can give us novel and useful perspectives on health and disease. If we understand the disease process better, we can certainly prevent, control as well as treat diseases in a better way. Although the thought that the origins of obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) might lie in our hunter gatherer adaptations is not new, research ... Read more
Darwinian medicine looks at the ecological and evolutionary roots of disease. A disease is an interaction between a genome and its biotic or abiotic environment and therefore a disease is essentially an ecological process. Good understanding of ecology and a Darwinian way of thinking can give us novel and useful perspectives on health and disease. If we understand the disease process better, we can certainly prevent, control as well as treat diseases in a better way. Although the thought that the origins of obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) might lie in our hunter gatherer adaptations is not new, research ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461444084
SKU
V9781461444084
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99-15
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