Man AdaptingYale University Press, 1980. jan. 1. - 538 oldal This enlarged edition of Man Adapting includes a new chapter expanding Dr. Dubos's discussion of the role of medicine in man's adaptive processes. In 1965 he wrote at length of the biological and social problems of human adaptation, while treating the medical aspects of this problem only in passing. He believed that the goal of medicine was to help man function successfully with the particular circumstances of his environment and heredity. But despite advancements in the prevention and treatment of disease, skepticism has developed during the last two decades concerning the usefulness of modern medicine. Dr. Dubos turns here to readdress this question. Today physicians rely on sophisticated scientific knowledge, and no longer offer the traditional doctor-patient relationship which ministered to psychological as well as physical comfort. But it is this spiritual aspect of human medicine, Dr. Dubos argues, which distinguishes it from general biology, and it will retain its unique position among the sciences only if it accepts responsibility for the human aspects of life. Dr. Dubos demonstrates the complex interrelationship between man and his biological environment. He writes, "I have attempted to focus my attention on the individual human being . . . trying as best he can to meet the emergencies of the day and to prepare for the uncertainties of the future. He is Man Adapting." |
Tartalomjegyzék
MANS NATURE | 1 |
Prenatal and early postnatal influences | 13 |
Sensory stimulation and personality structure | 22 |
MAN IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD | 35 |
Biological rhythms | 42 |
Bioclimatology | 56 |
MANS FOOD | 63 |
Nutritional state and development | 77 |
THE POPULATION AVALANCHE | 280 |
The homeostatic regulation of animal populations | 290 |
The determinants of human birth rates | 301 |
Population density and human life | 312 |
HIPPOCRATES IN Modern Dress | 319 |
Organismic and environmental biology | 330 |
MAN MEETS HIS Environment | 344 |
A City of Health | 351 |
Nutritional adaptations | 81 |
THE LIVING WORLD | 88 |
The social environment | 100 |
THE INDIGENOUS MICROBIOTA | 110 |
Effects of the microbiota on host nutrition | 128 |
Physiological effects of the indigenous microbiota | 135 |
NUTRITION AND INFECTION | 147 |
Nutrition and dental caries | 160 |
Exogenous vs endogenous microbial disease | 176 |
Genetic factors in microbial diseases | 185 |
ENVIROnmental Pollution | 196 |
Biological effects of air pollutants | 208 |
Delayed and indirect effects of biologically active agents | 220 |
CHANGINg Patterns of Disease | 226 |
Social patterns of disease | 236 |
ADAPTATION AND ITS DANGERS | 254 |
The adaptive potentialities of man | 269 |
The limitations of environmental control | 361 |
ERADICATION VERSUS Control | 369 |
Difficulties inherent in eradication programs | 376 |
Social limitations to the application of knowledge | 382 |
Scientific possibilities and social choices | 388 |
3 | 401 |
Individual factors in medical care | 408 |
Safety regulations and prospective epidemiology | 415 |
MEDICINE ADAPTING | 419 |
Dilemmas of modern medicine | 426 |
b The study of multifactorial systems | 440 |
Medical science and social needs | 446 |
CURING HELPING CONSOLING | 457 |
467 | |
520 | |
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