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作者:本社 编出版社:Cambridge University Press出版时间:2012年01月
- 版 次:1
- 页 数:350
- 字 数:
- 印刷时间:2012年01月01日
- 开 本:16开
- 纸 张:胶版纸
- 包 装:平装
- 是否套装:否
- 国际标准书号ISBN:9780521541480
How to avoid disease, how to breed successfully and how to
live to a reasonable age, are questions that have perplexed mankind
throughout history. This book explores our progress in
understanding these challenges, and the risks and rewards of our
attempts to find solutions. From the moment of conception,
nutrition and exposure to microbes or alien chemicals have
consequences that are etched into our cells and genomes. Such
events have a crucial impact on development in utero and in
childhood, and later, on the way we age, respond to infection, or
the likelihood of developing chronic diseases, including cancer.
The issues covered include the powerful influence of infectious
disease on human society, the burden of our genetic legacy and the
lottery of procreation. The author discusses how prospects for
human life might continually improve as biomedicine addresses these
problems and also debates the ethical checkpoints
encountered.
? Highly readable take on biomedical innovation, from prehistory
to the present ? Broad, multidisciplinary approach draws on
history, evolutionary biology and biomedicine ? Debates the ethical
checkpoints arising from biomedical advances
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