Biomedicine and the Human Condition Challenges, Risks, and Rewards

Name: Biomedicine and the Human Condition Challenges, Risks, and Rewards
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ISBN: 9780521541480

ISBN-10: 0521541484

ISBN-13: 9780521541480

Edition: 2004

Authors: Michael G. Sargent

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How to avoid disease, how to breed successfully, and how to live to a reasonable age are questions that have perplexed humankind throughout history. This book explores our progress in understanding these challenges, and the risks and rewards of devising solutions. A broad range of topics are covered, including reproduction, the development of human progeny from conception to adulthood, staying healthy, ageing, cancer, infection and the burden of our genetic legacy.

Book details

List price: $63.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 366
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Michael G. Sargent is a Research Scientist in Developmental Biology at the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill, London.



Preface



Challenge, risk and reward: learning to control our biological fate



Learning to breed successfully



How life is handled



Cells in sickness and health



Experiences in utero affect later life



Infection, nutrition and poisons: avoiding an unhealthy life



Signs of ageing: when renovation slows



Cancer and the body plan: a Darwinian struggle



Fighting infection



Are devastating epidemics still possible?



Discovering medicines: infinite variety through chemistry



Protein medicines from gene technology



Refurbishing the body



Living with the genetic legacy



Epilogue