Doves, Diplomats, and Diabetes - A Darwinian Interpretation of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Disorders (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)

Darwinian medicine looks at the ecological and evolutionary roots of disease. A disease is an interaction between a genome and its biotic or abiotic environment and therefore a disease is essentially an ecological process. Good understanding of ecology and a Darwinian way of thinking can give us novel and useful perspectives on health and disease. If we understand the disease process better, we can certainly prevent, control as well as treat diseases in a better way. Although the thought that the origins of obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) might lie in our hunter gatherer adaptations is not new, research over the last decade makes us rethink many of the classical concepts. Brain and behavior is increasingly being recognized as central to all the endocrine, metabolic and immunological changes that earmark type 2 diabetes and other metabolic syndrome disorders. A major change in paradigm appears to be on the horizon and the proposed book intends to speed up the paradigm shift by raising important questions, pointing out flaws and inadequacies in the prevalent paradigm and stimulating radical rethinking which would redirect and refine the line of research as well as bring some fundamental changes in drug discovery and clinical practice.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2012
First published:	2013
Authors:	Milind Watve
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	380
Edition:	2013 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4614-4408-4
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Endocrinology > Diabetes Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Pathology > Gross pathology Promotions
LSN:	1-4614-4408-X
Barcode:	9781461444084

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