Mirage of Health
Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change
Dubos, Rene
Publisher: Harper & Row, USA
Year First Published: {12295 Mirage of Health MIRAGE OF HEALTH Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change Dubos, Rene Harper & Row USA Dubos attempts to show that while it may be comforting to imagine a life free of stresses and strains in a carefree world, this will remain an idle dream. Humans cannot hope to find another Paradise on earth, because paradise is a static concept while human life is a dynamic process. 1959 1979 292pp BC12295s-MirageofHealth.jpg B Book 616.98 -
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<br>Table of Contents
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<br>The Gardens of Eden
<br>The Golden Ages
<br>The Return to Nature
<br>Health through Science
<br>Health as Adaptation
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<br>Biological and Social Adaptation
<br>The Haunts of Life
<br>Biological Adaptations in Man
<br>Adaptation through Social Mechanisms
<br>Unstability of Ecological Systems
<br>Social Determinants of Human Fitness
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<br>Struggle and Partnership in the Living World
<br>The struggle for Existence
<br>Man and the World of Microbes
<br>Infection versus Disease
<br>Adaptive Mechanisms of Resistance to Infection
<br>Symbiosis and Parasitism
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<br>Environment and Disease
<br>The Weather , the Potato Blight, and the Destiny of the Irish
<br>The Doctrine of Specific Etiology
<br>Direct and Indirect Effects of the External Environment
<br>The Internal Environment
<br>Interplay's between the External and the Internal Environment
<br>The Past as Factor of the Environment
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<br>Hygeia and Asclepius
<br>Gods of Health
<br>Hippocratic Wisdom and the Goldheaded Cane
<br>The Philosopher's Search for Health
<br>The Magic Bullets of Medicine
<br>Drugs and the Conquest of Disease
<br>Orthobiosis
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<br>Social Patterns of Health and of Disease
<br>The History of Diseases
<br>Hunger and Surfeit
<br>The Diseases of Pestilence and of Sanitation
<br>Modern Horsemen of the Apocalypse
<br>From Madness to boredom
<br>Medicine and Society
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<br>Effects of Disease on Populations and on Civilization
<br>Food, Disease, and Population Trends
<br>Effects of Disease and Nutrition on Military and Political History
<br>Disease and Social Evolution
<br>Effects of Disease on Cultural Forces
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<br>Utopias and Human Goals
<br>Arcadias and Utopias
<br>From Biological Adaptation to Social Evolution
<br>Social Changes and Ecological Equilibria
<br>Health, Happiness, and Human Values
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<br>Envoi
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<br>Epilogue: What World Perspectives Means, By Ruth Nanda Anshen CX6435 1 false true false CX6435.htm [0xc000743bf0 0xc0000b1770] Cx}
Year Published: 1979
Pages: 292pp Dewey: 616.98
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX6435
Dubos attempts to show that while it may be comforting to imagine a life free of stresses and strains in a carefree world, this will remain an idle dream. Humans cannot hope to find another Paradise on earth, because paradise is a static concept while human life is a dynamic process.
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Table of Contents
The Gardens of Eden
The Golden Ages
The Return to Nature
Health through Science
Health as Adaptation
Biological and Social Adaptation
The Haunts of Life
Biological Adaptations in Man
Adaptation through Social Mechanisms
Unstability of Ecological Systems
Social Determinants of Human Fitness
Struggle and Partnership in the Living World
The struggle for Existence
Man and the World of Microbes
Infection versus Disease
Adaptive Mechanisms of Resistance to Infection
Symbiosis and Parasitism
Environment and Disease
The Weather , the Potato Blight, and the Destiny of the Irish
The Doctrine of Specific Etiology
Direct and Indirect Effects of the External Environment
The Internal Environment
Interplay's between the External and the Internal Environment
The Past as Factor of the Environment
Hygeia and Asclepius
Gods of Health
Hippocratic Wisdom and the Goldheaded Cane
The Philosopher's Search for Health
The Magic Bullets of Medicine
Drugs and the Conquest of Disease
Orthobiosis
Social Patterns of Health and of Disease
The History of Diseases
Hunger and Surfeit
The Diseases of Pestilence and of Sanitation
Modern Horsemen of the Apocalypse
From Madness to boredom
Medicine and Society
Effects of Disease on Populations and on Civilization
Food, Disease, and Population Trends
Effects of Disease and Nutrition on Military and Political History
Disease and Social Evolution
Effects of Disease on Cultural Forces
Utopias and Human Goals
Arcadias and Utopias
From Biological Adaptation to Social Evolution
Social Changes and Ecological Equilibria
Health, Happiness, and Human Values
Envoi
Epilogue: What World Perspectives Means, By Ruth Nanda Anshen
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