
Why We Get Sick
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When may a fever be beneficial?
Why do pregnant women get morning sickness?
How do certain viruses "manipulate" their hosts into infecting others?
What evolutionary factors may be responsible for depression and panic disorder?
Deftly summarizing research on disorders ranging from allergies to Alzheimer's, and form cancer to Huntington's chorea, Why We Get Sick, answers these questions and more. The result is a book that will revolutionize our attitudes toward illness and will intrigue and instruct lay person and medical practitioners alike.
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Mystery of Disease
- 2. Evolution by Natural Selection
- 3. Signs and Symptoms of Infectious Disease
- 4. An Arms Race Without End
- 5. Injury
- 6. Toxins: New, Old, and Everywhere
- 7. Genes and Disease: Defects, Quirks, and Compromises
- 8. Aging as the Fountain of Youth
- 9. Legacies of Evolutionary History
- 10. Diseases of Civilization
- 11. Allergy
- 12. Cancer
- 13. Sex and Reproduction
- 14. Are Mental Disorders Diseases?
- 15. The Evolution of Medicine
- Notes
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