Western Diseases An Evolutionary Perspective

Name: Western Diseases An Evolutionary Perspective
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ISBN: 9780521617376

ISBN-10: 0521617375

ISBN-13: 9780521617376

Edition: 2008

Authors: Tessa M. Pollard

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As a group, western diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, allergies and mental health problems constitute one of the major problems facing humans at the beginning of the 21st century, particularly as they extend into poorer countries. An evolutionary perspective has much to offer standard biomedical understandings of western diseases. At the heart of this approach is the notion that human evolution occurred in circumstances very different from the modern affluent western environment and that, as a consequence, human biology is not adapted to the contemporary western environment. Written with an anthropological perspective and aimed at advanced…

Book details

List price: $60.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Tessa Pollard graduated from Oxford University 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.

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.