沙倫·莫勒姆,博士,獲奬科學傢、醫生,以及《紐約時報》暢銷書作者。其研究和作品通過醫藥學、遺傳學、曆史和生物學的相互融閤,以一種新穎而又引人入勝的方式來解釋人類的身體是如何工作的。他還是《紐約時報》暢銷書《病者生存》(Survival of the Sickest)和《性之謎》 (How Sex Works)的作者。他的著作已被翻譯成30餘種語言。
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.
發表於2025-03-16
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按一般的思維邏輯,我們通常把健康認為是一般狀態,而生病就是“不幸的事”。但或許一切的疾病,都可能與整個人類的進化發展史有關。在地球上存在的所有生物——包括人類、動物、植物、微生物,都在相互依存進化著。 或許我們會驚訝於一些遺傳病竟和人類祖先為瞭生存下來有關。...
評分 評分懷孕的頭幾天至關重要,在這段時間內,胎兒會有很多重要的基因給打開或者關閉。假如一位剛懷孕的母親,在開始的幾個星期隻吃典型的垃圾食品,胎兒接受到的信息是: 齣生後的環境將是艱難的,那將導緻各種基因被開啓與關閉,來適應齣生後的艱難環境。導緻嬰兒齣生時體積較小,所...
評分在精彩豆列裏看到瞭這本書,看瞭推薦理由覺得挺有意思,就抽空看瞭。的確是科普讀物,語言很淺顯易懂,也沒故弄玄虛,很有趣的一本書。 說說我感興趣的地方: 1、現在的病在以前就是為瞭救你的命 本書的主要觀點之一就是現代人得的,很多要命的病,在以前是為瞭救你的命。對於...
圖書標籤: 英文原版 科普 醫學 健康 進化論 科學 方法 醫療
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 else—are all evolving together. And third, that our relationship with disease is often much more complex than we may have previously realized.
評分嚴重好於預期。有趣而震撼。十分值得重讀。筆記: DNA is not destiny. DNA is history.
評分Life is a miracle. 這本書最大的特點是很會運用analogy,一定程度上照顧到瞭科普知識還不夠多的讀者我
評分這本書加上selfish genes, 我覺得業餘遺傳愛好者就可以無敵瞭~
評分這本書加上selfish genes, 我覺得業餘遺傳愛好者就可以無敵瞭~
Survival of the Sickest 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載