Why We Get Sick The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
by Nesse, Randolph M.; Williams, George C.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-01-30
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary
The answers are in this groundbreaking book by two founders of the emerging science of Darwinian medicine, who deftly synthesize the latest research on disorders ranging from allergies to Alzheimer's and from cancer to Huntington's chorea. Why We Get Sick compels readers to reexamine the age-old attitudes toward sickness. Line drawings.
Author Biography
Randolph M Nesse, M.D., is a practicing physcian and professor and associate chair for education and academic affairs in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School.
George C. Williams, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus of ecology and evolution at the State University at Stony Brook and editor of The Quarterly Review of Biology.
George C. Williams, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus of ecology and evolution at the State University at Stony Brook and editor of The Quarterly Review of Biology.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | v | ||||
| Preface | ix | ||||
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| Notes | 251 | (22) | |||
| Index | 273 |
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