Western Diseases

by Tessa M. Pollard

Book Overview

As a group, western diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, allergies and mental health problems constitute one of the major problems facing humans at the beginning of the 21st century, particularly as they extend into poorer countries. An evolutionary perspective has much to offer standard biomedical understandings of western diseases. At the heart of this approach is the notion that human evolution occurred in circumstances...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521617375
• ISBN13: 9780521617376
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"