Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 458 g
A Logic of Disease
Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 458 g
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7442-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
In Genetic Medicine: A Logic of Disease, Barton Childs demonstrates that knowledge of the ways both genes and environment contribute to disease provides a rational basis for medical thinking. This "genetic" medicine, he explains, should help the physician use the results of laboratory tests to perceive the uniqueness of the patient as well as that of the family and the cultural conditions in which the patient's condition arose. Childs thus provides a conceptual framework within which to teach and practice a humane medicine.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I. MEDICAL THINKING
Chapter 2. Inborn Errors and Chemical Individuality
Chapter 3. The Transition from Oslerian to Garrodian Medicine
Chapter 4. Individuality and Causes
Chapter 5. Definitions of Disease
Part II. A LOGIC OF DISEASE
Chapter 6. Biology and Medicine: Contrasts and Convergences
Chapter 7. A Synthesis
Part III. SPECIES IDENTITY
Chapter 8. Lessons from Phylogeny
Part IV. ADAPTIVE FLEXIBILITY: HOMEOSTASIS AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 9. Physiological Homeostasis: The Homeostasis of the Moment
Chapter 10. Genetic Homeostasis: The Past
Chapter 11. Developmental Homeostasis: The Lifetime
Chapter 12. Sociocultural Homeostasis
Chapter 13. Homeostatic Interactions
Part V. DESCENT WITH MODIFICATION: GENETIC VARIATION
Chapter 14. What is a Gene?
Chapter 15. The Paths of Gene Action
Chapter 16. Whatever Is, Is Variable
Chapter 17. The Semantics of Genetics
Chapter 18. Classification of Disease
Part VI. REPRODUCTION, FREQUENCY, AND CONTINUITY
Chapter 19. The Diploid State
Chapter 20. Gene Frequency
Chapter 21. Heterogeneity
Chapter 22. Unity and Continuity of Disease
Chapter 23. Heritability
Chapter 24. Infections
Part VII. AN ANALYSIS OF DISEASE IN THREE TIME FRAMES
Chapter 25. The Moment: Type I Diabetes
Chapter 26. The Lifetime
Chapter 27. Biological and Social History, and a Vision of Disease in Three Time Frames
Part VIII. THE LOGIC AND MODERN MEDICINE
Chapter 28. The Human Genome Project
Chapter 29. The Medical-Genetic Synthesis and Society
Chapter 30. A Basis for Medical Education
