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Science. Nonfiction. HTML:The next time you get sick, consider this before picking up the aspirin: your body may be doing exactly what it's supposed to. In this ground-breaking book, two pioneers of the science of Darwinian medicine argue that illness as well as the factors that predispose us toward it are subject to the same laws of natural selection that otherwise make our bodies such miracles of design.  Among the concerns they raise:<br /> <br /> When may a fever be beneficial?<br /> Why do pregnant women get morning sickness?<br /> How do certain viruses "manipulate" their hosts into infecting others?<br /> What evolutionary factors may be responsible for depression and panic disorder?<br /> <br /> Deftly summarizing research on disorders ranging from allergies to Alzheimer's, and form cancer to Huntington's chorea, <i>Why We Get Sick,</i> 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...<div class="notes"><a href="#" onclick="return description_alternates(139688,1);">5 alternates</a> | English | Primary description for language | Description provided by Bowker | score: 37</div></div></div><div class="workdescription_new alwaysblue"><div class="wdn_right"><span class="thumbvoter alwaysblack" id="vote_12_6407569"><span class="main"><i class="far fa-thumbs-up votethumb"></i><i class="far fa-thumbs-down votethumb"></i></span></span><div class="flagger"><a class="blacklink alwaysblack" href="#" onclick="return description_flag(6407569,0,0,2114668069);"><i class="far fa-flag"></i></a></div></div><div class="wdn_left">"We can cure hundreds of ailments, but we understand remarkably little about why diseases exist at all. Why do we crave the very things that make us sick? Why, after thousands of generations, hasn't natural selection eliminated cancer, schizophrenia, and other scourges and evolved us into perfect human beings?" "Such questions are at the heart of the new discipline called Darwinian medicine, which applies the principles of evolutionary biology to the problems of medicine. The result of a unique collaboration between the chief architects of this new science - a groundbreaking Darwinian physician and one of the pioneers of modern evolutionary theory - Why We Get Sick offers a whole new set of scientific questions and suggests new ways of understanding illness." "Finding evolutionary explanations for why we get sick - infectious agents that evolve faster than we do, environmental novelties, genes that are selected despite the fact that they cause disease, defenses, design compromises, evolutionary legacies - can help us uncover new, more effective methods of treatment. It can help resolve medical quandaries - for example, when is it best to let a fever run its course and when best to bring it down with medication? It offers a new view of disease that changes the relationship between our bodies and ourselves." "Why We Get Sick takes the first major step toward reconceiving medicine as we approach the twenty-first century. Incorporating an evolutionary perspective into our understanding of illness will revolutionize the art and science of medicine and enable its practitioners to come close to achieving its ancient goals: To cure, sometimes. To help, often. To console, always."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved<div class="notes"><a href="#" onclick="return description_alternates(139688,5);">2 alternates</a> | English | score: 7</div></div></div><div class="workdescription_new alwaysblue"><div class="wdn_right"><span class="thumbvoter alwaysblack" id="vote_12_1624820"><span class="main"><i class="far fa-thumbs-up votethumb"></i><i class="far fa-thumbs-down votethumb"></i></span></span><div class="flagger"><a class="blacklink alwaysblack" href="#" onclick="return description_flag(1624820,0,0,82505049);"><i class="far fa-flag"></i></a></div></div><div class="wdn_left">The authors state the case that illness and disorder are part of an evolutionary reaction by the human body, and in some cases, they may be beneficial to the current physical or psychological state of the ill person. Examples include morning sickness as a control over the nutritional needs of the pregnant woman, and fever as a means to regulate body temperature to fight off infection. While the authors do not claim that medical treatment should be withheld, understanding the underlying causes of some medical illness or disorders may be as important as typical medical treatment.<div class="notes">English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 5</div></div></div><div class="workdescription_new alwaysblue"><div class="wdn_right"><span class="thumbvoter alwaysblack" id="vote_12_22305542"><span class="main"><i class="far fa-thumbs-up votethumb"></i><i class="far fa-thumbs-down votethumb"></i></span></span><div class="flagger"><a class="blacklink alwaysblack" href="#" onclick="return description_flag(22305542,0,0,3161679521);"><i class="far fa-flag"></i></a></div></div><div class="wdn_left">Health & Fitness. Science. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>"By bringing the evolutionary vision systematically into one of the last unconquered provinces, Nesse and Williams have devised not only means for the improvement of medicine but fundamental new insights into the human condition."</p>. "In moving the focus from 'how' to 'why' questions, Nesse and Williams introduce readers to a new way of thinking about illness, one that promises to be of increasing interest as...our culture turns toward evolutionary explanations for human predicaments.". HTML:<p>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.<br /> <br /> <i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p>.<div class="notes">English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 4</div></div></div><div class="workdescription_new alwaysblue"><div class="wdn_right"><span class="thumbvoter alwaysblack" id="vote_12_7051019"><span class="main"><i class="far fa-thumbs-up votethumb"></i><i class="far fa-thumbs-down votethumb"></i></span></span><div class="flagger"><a class="blacklink alwaysblack" href="#" onclick="return description_flag(7051019,0,0,1974168136);"><i class="far fa-flag"></i></a></div></div><div class="wdn_left">The first ever description of how evolutionary principles can be applied to questions of health and sickness.<div class="notes">English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 4</div></div></div><div class="workdescription_new alwaysblue"><div class="wdn_right"><span class="thumbvoter alwaysblack" id="vote_12_7856203"><span class="main"><i class="far fa-thumbs-up votethumb"></i><i class="far fa-thumbs-down votethumb"></i></span></span><div class="flagger"><a class="blacklink alwaysblack" href="#" onclick="return description_flag(7856203,0,0,2060122504);"><i class="far fa-flag"></i></a></div></div><div class="wdn_left">This is the result of a collaboration between a research biologist and a pioneering medical doctor. It defines a set of scientific questions about health, and describes the advances that can be expected from the new evolution-based medicine. The authors suggest that most of what we think of as illness is in fact best understood as being side effects of evolutionary progress.<div class="notes">English | score: 3</div></div></div><div class="workdescription_new alwaysblue"><div class="wdn_right"><span class="thumbvoter alwaysblack" id="vote_12_15857438"><span class="main"><i class="far fa-thumbs-up votethumb"></i><i class="far fa-thumbs-down votethumb"></i></span></span><div class="flagger"><a class="blacklink alwaysblack" href="#" onclick="return description_flag(15857438,0,0,3813030842);"><i class="far fa-flag"></i></a></div></div><div class="wdn_left">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. 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