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Overview'Complete freedom from disease and from struggle is almost incompatible with the process of living, ' Rene Dubos asserted in this classic essay on ecology and health. All the accomplishments of science and technology, he argued, will not bring the utopian dream of universal well-being, because they ignore the dynamic process of adaptation to a constantly changing environment that every living organism must face. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jean DubosPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.397kg ISBN: 9780813512600ISBN 10: 0813512603 Pages: 294 Publication Date: 01 October 1987 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD  We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. The Gardens of Eden 2. Biological and Social Adaptation 3. Struggle and Partnership in the Living World 4. Environment and Disease 5. Hygeia and Asclepius 6. Social Patterns of Health and of Disease 7. Effects of Disease on Populations and on Civilization 8. Utopias and Human GoalsReviews"A learned, well-written, and delightful introduction to medicine as a social science. It must be read particularly by the new generation of doctors, the human biologists as yet unencumbered by the pile of facts and loose thinking that is curative medicine today.-- ""Nature"" An exceptional book - plain, lucid, elegant, lively. It draws its facts and illustrates not only from the corpus of medicine but from authors from Lao-tzu to Proust. It is logical and persuasive... a confession of faith and humility by a great scientist.-- ""Lancet"" This book will be a treat for readers, and it will make them think.-- ""Science""" In the World Perspectives series, this takes a long view of the pursuit of health and happiness from ancient times to the present, and finds that drugs have not achieved freedom from disease (we are today perhaps more than ever dependent on them- certainly emotionally)- a freedom which is in itself incompatible with the process of living . This is then both a biological and microbiological perspective of man- with broader conceptual implications: of our attitudes toward disease; of the tide of infectious and nutritional illnesses which had ebbed- long before laboratory science had achieved its controls; of the adaptive mechanisms of man (immunity, in particular) to his environment; of the role played by microbes both beneficial and harmful; of the accidental- to undiscoverable factors in the causation of disease; of the diseases of surfeit as well as starvation, of pestilence and filth; and of the effects of disease on history, on political and cultural forces... It is a stimulating survey - of man's struggle to survive which science cannot foreordain, filled with fascinating facts of the phenomena of disease- and healing- the world over. Dr. Dubos, a member of the Rockefeller Institute, who may be remembered for his earlier Louis Pasteur, writes well and has a tremendous variety of information at his command. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationRene Dubos (1901 - 1982) is also an author of The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and Society, which is also available from Rutgers University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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