Western Diseases - Tessa M. Pollard

Western Diseases

An Evolutionary Perspective
Buch | Hardcover
236 Seiten
2008
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-85180-0 (ISBN)
145,90 inkl. MwSt
Written with an anthropological perspective and aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduates taking courses in the ecology and evolution of disease, Tessa Pollard applies and extends the evolutionary perspective, providing a new synthesis of current understandings of evolutionary processes, and of the biology and epidemiology of disease.
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 undergraduates and graduates taking courses in the ecology and evolution of disease, Tessa Pollard applies and extends this evolutionary perspective by analysing trends in rates of western diseases and providing a new synthesis of current understandings of evolutionary processes, and of the biology and epidemiology of disease.

Tessa Pollard graduated from the University of Oxford 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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.4.2008
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
Zusatzinfo 4 Tables, unspecified; 15 Halftones, unspecified; 6 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 14 x 229 mm
Gewicht 490 g
Themenwelt Studium Querschnittsbereiche Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Infektiologie / Immunologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Evolution
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
ISBN-10 0-521-85180-7 / 0521851807
ISBN-13 978-0-521-85180-0 / 9780521851800
Zustand Neuware
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