The Mirage of Health: Utopia, Progress, and Biological Change
Autor Professor Jean Dubosen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 1987
'Complete freedom from disease and from struggle is almost incompatible with the process of living, ' Rene Dubos asserted in this classic essay on ecology and health. All the accomplishments of science and technology, he argued, will not bring the utopian dream of universal well-being, because they ignore the dynamic process of adaptation to a constantly changing environment that every living organism must face.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780813512600
ISBN-10: 0813512603
Pagini: 294
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10: 0813512603
Pagini: 294
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
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Notă biografică
Rene Dubos (1901 - 1982) is also an author of The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and Society, which is also available from Rutgers University Press.
Cuprins
1. The Gardens of Eden
2. Biological and Social Adaptation
3. Struggle and Partnership in the Living World
4. Environment and Disease
5. Hygeia and Asclepius
6. Social Patterns of Health and of Disease
7. Effects of Disease on Populations and on Civilization
8. Utopias and Human Goals
2. Biological and Social Adaptation
3. Struggle and Partnership in the Living World
4. Environment and Disease
5. Hygeia and Asclepius
6. Social Patterns of Health and of Disease
7. Effects of Disease on Populations and on Civilization
8. Utopias and Human Goals
Recenzii
An exceptional book - plain, lucid, elegant, lively. It draws its facts and illustrates not only from the corpus of medicine but from authors from Lao-tzu to Proust. It is logical and persuasive... a confession of faith and humility by a great scientist.
This book will be a treat for readers, and it will make them think.
A learned, well-written, and delightful introduction to medicine as a social science. It must be read particularly by the new generation of doctors, the human biologists as yet unencumbered by the pile of facts and loose thinking that is curative medicine today.
This book will be a treat for readers, and it will make them think.
A learned, well-written, and delightful introduction to medicine as a social science. It must be read particularly by the new generation of doctors, the human biologists as yet unencumbered by the pile of facts and loose thinking that is curative medicine today.
Descriere
'Complete freedom from disease and from struggle is almost incompatible with the process of living, ' Rene Dubos asserted in this classic essay on ecology and health. All the accomplishments of science...