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A groundbreaking, evidence-based text to the growing field of evolutionary medicine

Evidence-Based Evolutionary Medicine offers a comprehensive review of the burgeoning field of evolutionary medicine and explores vital topics such as evolution, ecology, and aging as they relate to mainstream medicine. The text integrates Darwinian principles and evidence-based medicine in order to offer a clear picture of the underlying principles that reflect how and why organisms have evolved on a cellular level.

The authors-noted authorities in their respective fields-address evolutionary medicine from a developmental cell-molecular perspective. They explore the first principles of physiology that explain the generation of existing tissues, organs, and organ systems. The text offers an understanding of the overall biology as a vertically integrated whole, from unicellular to multicellular organisms. In addition, it addresses clinical diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, both traditional and cell-homeostatic. This groundbreaking text:

* Offers a much-needed, logical, and fundamental approach to biology and medicine
* Provides a clear explanation of complex physiology and pathophysiology
* Integrates topics like evolution, ecology and aging into mainstream medicine, making them more relevant
* Contains the first evidence-based text on evolutionary medicine

Written for medical and graduate students in biology, physiology, anatomy, endocrinology, reproductive biology, medicine, pathology, systems biology, this vital resource offers a unique text of both biology as an integrated whole with universal properties; and of medicine seeing the individual as a whole, not an inventory of parts and diseases.


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We will base the Chapters of the proposed book on Evolutionary Medicine on standard textbooks of Medicine, physiology and pathophysiology so that the medical student will be able to see how the evolutionary approach provides a logic for the descriptive parts lists for health and disease. In examining Harrison s Principles of Internal Medicine, McCance and Huether s Pathophysiology, and Guyton and Hall s Physiology as standard textbooks for medical and graduate school education in biology and medicine, none of them provide an integrated perspective for the processes of physiology, how they evolved for homeostasis, how pathophysiology can be viewed as a continuum from health to disease (and back) as failed evolution , regeneration/repair as the recapitulation of ontogeny, and aging as a logical consequence of the evolutionary physiologic strategy. One illustration-related thought would be to have standard schematics for medicine, physiology, and pathophysiology with transparent overlays of the evolutionary approach so that the student can literally see how the descriptive and mechanistic evolutionary approaches are at the same time one and the same and different. Working Table of Contents or Outline of contents 1. The Cell as the smallest Unit of Biology/Physiology 2. Development of tissues and organs 3. Mechanisms of Development as the Basis for Homeostasis 4. Cell Communication as the Universal Language of Biology and Medicine 5. Integrated Regulation of Homeostasis- vascular, nervous, endocrine, neuroendocrine, autonomic 6. When Homeostasis Fails 7. Endogenous Mechanisms for Healing 8. Exogenous Mechanisms for Healing- Pharmacologics 9. Exogenous Mechanisms for Healing- Biologics 10. Repair as Ontogeny 11. Regeneration as Phylogeny 12. Systems Biology as Recapitulation of Ontogeny and Phylogeny 13. Bioethics Based on First Principles of Physiology 14. Man s Place in the Universe Redux


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ISBN-13: 9781118838372
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Publication date: July, 2018
Pages: 300
Dimensions: 150.00 x 214.00 x 18.00
Weight: 482g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Diseases and Disorders, General Practice

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