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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Pain and its origins, diagnosis and treatments
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Pain and its origins, diagnosis, and treatments series.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""THE ORIGIN OF DISEASES""; ""THE ORIGIN OF DISEASES""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Overview""; ""What on Earth Has Happened in the Past 10,000 Years?""; ""Misguided Ideas on the Causes of Diseases""; ""Genes Yet to Adapt to a Given Environment""; ""Diseases Are Purely Man-Made after All""; ""New Challenges""; ""Chapter I: Human Genes and the Environment""; ""Cause of Diseases: Not Two but One""; ""The Agricultural Revolution Opens the Age of Disease""; ""What Impact did Human Migration Have on the Occurrence of Disease?"" |
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""Genes Accused with a False Charge""""Chapter II: The Eight Key Environmental Factors""; ""Stumbled Upon a Dilemma in Nutritional Intake""; ""Climate Change Lurking behind the Emergence of Disease""; ""Is Sunlight Responsible for the Spread of Chronic Diseases?""; ""Since When Have Humans Been Good at Long-Distance Running?""; ""Alcohol: Its Dual Role""; ""Our Body Has Yet to Adapt to Cigarettes""; ""The Industrial Revolution, a Hotbed for All Sorts of Diseases""; ""The Fatal Legacy of the Use of Fossil Fuels""; ""Chapter III: The Eight Key Diseases""; ""Full-fledged Invasion of Pathogens"" |
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""We Are Programmed to Gain Weight""""Causes of the Epidemic Spread of Diabetes Mellitus""; ""Variation in the Risk of Hypertension by Region""; ""Once a Beneficial Gene, Now a Culprit for Cardiovascular Diseases""; ""Immature Defense System Causes Allergic Diseases""; ""Cancer: A Purely Man-made Disease""; ""Modern Society Prompts Depression""; ""Chapter IV: New Challenges""; ""Beyond the Age of Chronic Diseases""; ""How Long Can We Expect to Live?""; ""Aging-related Disease, a Price to Pay""; ""Amidst the Turning Tide""; ""References""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3"" |
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""Chapter 4""""Epilogue""; ""Diseases Caused by the Civilization""; ""3 Key Strategies to Prevent Diseases""; ""The Role of Communities""; ""Index""; ""Blank Page"" |
| Summary |
While covering human history, civilization, and diseases to reveal why humans are sick with many ailments, this book provides the answers to the questions: ""When, why, and how did humans contract all kinds of infectious and chronic diseases?"" The increasing occurrence of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, asthma and cancer does not simply denote increment in the incidence of diseases, but a pathological phenomenon that reflects the condition of humanity's current environment. With humanity's graduation from the era of hunter-gatherers, infectious diseases and nutritional di. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Diseases -- History.
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Diseases. |
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History. |
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Diseases -- Social aspects.
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Diseases -- Social aspects. |
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Diseases -- Genetics.
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Genetics. |
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Health -- Social aspects.
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Health -- Social aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Hong, Yun-Chul Origin of Diseases : Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,c2015 9781634830348 |
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9781634830621 electronic book |
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1634830628 electronic book |
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9781634830348 |
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