基本信息出版社：Harper Perennial
页码：304 页
出版日期：2008年03月
ISBN：0060889667
International Standard Book Number：0060889667
条形码：9780060889661
EAN：9780060889661
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：P.S.
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Joining the ranks of modern myth busters, Dr. Sharon Moalem turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies, our health, and our relationship to just about every other living thing on earth. Through a fresh and engaging examination of our evolutionary history, Dr. Moalem reveals how many of the conditions that are diseases today actually gave our ancestors a leg up in the survival sweepstakes. But Survival of the Sickest doesn't stop there. It goes on to demonstrate just how little modern medicine really understands about human health, and offers a new way of thinking that can help all of us live longer, healthier lives.
作者简介
Dr. Sharon Moalem is an award-winning neurogeneticist and evolutionary biologist, with a Ph.D. in human physiology. His research brings evolution, genetics, biology, and medicine together to explain how the body works in new and fascinating ways. He and his work have been featured on CNN, in the New York Times, on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, on The Today Show, and in magazines such as New Scientist, Elle, and Martha Stewart's Body + Soul. Dr. Moalem's first book was the New York Times bestseller Survival of the Sickest. He lives in New York City.
编辑推荐 "CSI meets Freakonomics meets Bill Nye the Science Guy." (Edmonton Journal (Alberta) )^MED History does not always receive a great deal of attention...this book shows exactly why it shouldn't be ignored. (Library Journal )^"[It] will challenge everything you thought you knew about disease. Fascinating!" (Memet Oz, co-author of YOU: The Owners Manuel )^"A lively and enthusiastic treatise" (Kirkus Reviews )^"fascinating, enlightening and reader-friendly...This is one not-to-be-missed fantastic journey across the evolutionary landscape of humankind. (Rocky Mountain News )^"[a] fascinating new book...[Moalem] has a way of turning complicated biology into captivating stories." (Body + Soul )