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050	0	0	_aRB152 _b.P655 2008
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100	1		_aPollard, Tessa M., _d1966- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWestern diseases : _ban evolutionary perspective / _cTessa M. Pollard.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2008.
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; _v54
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0		_aAn evolutionary history of human disease -- Obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease -- The thrifty genotype versus thrifty phenotype debate: efforts to explain between population variation in rates of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease -- Reproductive cancers -- Reproductive function, breastfeeding and the menopause -- Asthma and allergic disease -- Depression and stress.
520			_aAs 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.
650		0	_aDiseases _xCauses and theories of causation.
650		0	_aMedical geography.
650		0	_aHuman evolution.
650		0	_aEpidemiology.
650		0	_aHuman ecology.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521851800
830		0	_aCambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; _v54.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511841118
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