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Explaining Health Across the Sciences (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Explaining Health Across the Sciences (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Healthy Ageing and Longevity, 12
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This edited volume aims to better understand the multifaceted
phenomenon we call health. Going beyond simple views of health as
the absence of disease or as complete well-being, this book unites
scientists and philosophers. The contributions clarify the links
between health and adaptation, robustness, resilience, or dynamic
homeostasis, and discuss how to achieve health and healthy aging
through practices such as hormesis. The book is divided into three
parts and a conclusion: the first part explains health from within
specific disciplines, the second part explores health from the
perspective of a bodily part, system, function, or even the
environment in which organisms live, and the final part looks at
more clinical or practical perspectives. It thereby gathers, across
30 chapters, diverse perspectives from the broad fields of
evolutionary and systems biology, immunology, and biogerontology,
more specific areas such as odontology, cardiology, neurology, and
public health, as well as philosophical reflections on mental
health, sexuality, authenticity and medical theories. The
overarching aim is to inform, inspire and encourage intellectuals
from various disciplines to assess whether explanations in these
disparate fields and across biological levels can be sufficiently
systematized and unified to clarify the complexity of health. It
will be particularly useful for medical graduates, philosophy
graduates and research professionals in the life sciences and
general medicine, as well as for upper-level graduate philosophy of
science students.
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