作者：SharonMoalem/JonathanPrince
出版社：WilliamMorrow
出版年：2007-2
页数：288
定价：105.00元
装帧：Paperback
ISBN：9780007236107
内容简介
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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.
作者简介
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沙龙·莫勒姆是多伦多大学哲学博士、纽约西奈山医学院医学博士，他专攻的领域为稀有疾病、神经遗传学和生物技术，他的学术研究和医学工作主要围绕进化、遗传、生物学和医学如何革命性地改变我们理解疾病的方式。莫勒姆博士著有《性与五感》《遗传》《重启DNA》等多部科普著作，曾任《阿尔茨海默病杂志》（Journal of Alzheimer's Disease）副主编，与人合伙创办了两家生物技术公司，并获得多项专利。他的临床遗传学研究帮助发现了两种罕见的遗传特征，以及一种新型的抗菌化合物新药。
乔纳森·普林斯曾任克林顿政府的高级顾问和演讲稿撰写人，曾在科索沃战争期间负责管理北约的沟通战略。因其在改进政治广告方面的工作，美国《时尚杂志》（Esquire）在2005年将他评为美国聪明头脑之一。他致力于公共和环保事业，与美国参议院前议员约翰·爱德华兹和约翰·爱德华兹的女儿凯特一起编撰了《家园：我们生命的蓝图》一书。
译者简介
程纪莲，1988年生，山东莒南人。本科毕业于青岛大学外语学院英语专业，硕士毕业于北京师范大学外国语言文学学院外国语言学及应用语言学专业，现任职于北京信息科技大学，专注于翻译理论与实践、跨文化交流、中外文化对比研究等。
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看完the selfish gene再读这个，感觉在基因论里，人类的所有行为都失去了意义，最终是为了整体的生存，个体的悲欢喜乐真的无足轻重，只是这样繁荣又残酷的演变和淘汰，到底是为什么呢？我们所演变出来思考生存意义的大脑也是为了生存吗？
First, that life is in a constant state of creation. Evolution isn’t over. Second, that nothing in our world exists in isolation. We—meaning humans and animals and plants and microbes and everything e…
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～
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
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