沙伦·莫勒姆,博士,获奖科学家、医生,以及《纽约时报》畅销书作者。其研究和作品通过医药学、遗传学、历史和生物学的相互融合,以一种新颖而又引人入胜的方式来解释人类的身体是如何工作的。他还是《纽约时报》畅销书《病者生存》(Survival of the Sickest)和《性之谜》 (How Sex Works)的作者。他的著作已被翻译成30余种语言。
Synopsis
In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, wunderkind Dr. Sharon Moalem delves back into the evolution of man to reveal hitherto unknown and astonishing ways the human body is built to survive. With this revolutionary new book, Sharon Moalem completely turns modern medicine's understanding of disease on it's head. "It is not," he argues, "that dark country to which we're exiled when we're not 'healthy.' The truth, I intend to show you, is much more interesting and encouraging." His research will reveal that many common diseases are in fact complicated blessings. In considering the question of why diseases exist, Moalem proposes that most common diseases came into existence for very good reasons. Diabetes, hemochromatosis, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia all may exist because at some point they helped our ancestors survive some grand challenge to human existence. In turn, he also discovered that genetic and cultural differences have led to each race having different and unique ways of reacting to their environment and subsequently how they become susceptible to certain diseases.
With mesmerizing insight, Moalem demonstrates how diabetes may be a by-product of a mechanism that helped humans survive the Ice Age, why African Americans living in the north might suffer from vitamin D deficiencies, and why Asians can't drink as much alcohol as Europeans. Information in this book is extremely timely, such as Moalem's exploration of the Avian Flu, a disease that threatens to be the world's next great pandemic. Revelatory and written in an utterly engaging fashion, Sharon Moalem's book will change the way we think about our own bodies.
每一种生物都有两种最基本的需求:生存和繁殖。当生物体试图提高生存和繁殖的概率时,进化便发生了。有时候一种生物体的存活是对另一种生物体的死刑判决,因此任何一个物种的进化都会对成百上千的其他物种造成进化压力。 对一个没有伤口或皮肤破损的成年人而言,感染途径主要包...
评分 评分揭开寄生虫和他们宿主们的故事 (转)据美国《探索》杂志报道,一谈到“僵尸动物”,人们自然而然会想到科幻大片中的情景,事实上,确实有大量寄生虫可以控制毛虫、蟑螂、螃蟹,甚至人类的大脑,导致自身免疫性神经精神障碍及精神分裂症、性行为改变等。 许多情形下,科学家并不...
评分 评分在精彩豆列里看到了这本书,看了推荐理由觉得挺有意思,就抽空看了。的确是科普读物,语言很浅显易懂,也没故弄玄虚,很有趣的一本书。 说说我感兴趣的地方: 1、现在的病在以前就是为了救你的命 本书的主要观点之一就是现代人得的,很多要命的病,在以前是为了救你的命。对于...
学习医学英语时的课外读物,原版很好读词汇不难,而且很科普很有趣~
评分大学学了两门进化论,发现还有新东西
评分大学学了两门进化论,发现还有新东西
评分Life is a miracle. 这本书最大的特点是很会运用analogy,一定程度上照顾到了科普知识还不够多的读者我
评分大学学了两门进化论,发现还有新东西
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