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      Cambridge University Press
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      05 June 2012
      10 April 2008
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      9780511841118
      9780521851800
      9780521617376
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      (228 x 152 mm)
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      0.49kg, 236 Pages
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    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 very different from the modern affluent western environment and that, as a consequence, human biology is not adapted to the contemporary western environment. Written with an anthropological perspective and aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduates taking courses in the ecology and evolution of disease, Tessa Pollard applies and extends this evolutionary perspective by analysing trends in rates of western diseases and providing a new synthesis of current understandings of evolutionary processes, and of the biology and epidemiology of disease.

    Reviews

    '… a powerful and compelling evolutionary analysis of the 'diseases of civilisation', a stellar achievement … every medical student, practitioner, and researcher in the field of human health should read it.'

    Peter T. Ellison - John Cowles Professor of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University

    '… a beautifully written, very up-to-date review of the most current information on the chronic illnesses that best modern peoples.'

    Daniel Brown - Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of Research and Graduate Studies, University of Hawai'i at Hilo

    'Pollard offers new ways to approach old problems and never shies away from pointing out the sometimes surprising gaps in our present knowledge. This is an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate students interested in public health, medical anthropology, reproductive ecology, biological anthropology, and/or evolutionary medicine.'

    Professor Lynnette Leidy Stewart - Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

    '… Western Diseases persuades us that we can only understand health and disease in an evolutionary context.'

    Source: American Scientist

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