Explaining Health Across the Sciences

Author:   Jonathan Sholl ,  Suresh I.S. Rattan
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Volume:   12
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9783030526627


Pages:   555
Publication Date:   29 August 2020
Format:   Hardback
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This edited volume aims to better understand the multifaceted phenomenon we call health. Going beyond simple views of health as the absence of disease or as complete well-being, this book unites scientists and philosophers. The contributions clarify the links between health and adaptation, robustness, resilience, or dynamic homeostasis, and discuss how to achieve health and healthy aging through practices such as hormesis. The book is divided into three parts and a conclusion: the first part explains health from within specific disciplines, the second part explores health from the perspective of a bodily part, system, function, or even the environment in which organisms live, and the final part looks at more clinical or practical perspectives. It thereby gathers, across 30 chapters, diverse perspectives from the broad fields of evolutionary and systems biology, immunology, and biogerontology, more specific areas such as odontology, cardiology, neurology, andpublic health, as well as philosophical reflections on mental health, sexuality, authenticity and medical theories. The overarching aim is to inform, inspire and encourage intellectuals from various disciplines to assess whether explanations in these disparate fields and across biological levels can be sufficiently systematized and unified to clarify the complexity of health. It will be particularly useful for medical graduates, philosophy graduates and research professionals in the life sciences and general medicine, as well as for upper-level graduate philosophy of science students.

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Author:   Jonathan Sholl ,  Suresh I.S. Rattan
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Volume:   12
Weight:   1.021kg
ISBN:  

9783030526627


ISBN 10:   3030526623
Pages:   555
Publication Date:   29 August 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Section 1: Health across disciplines Biology 1. Evolutionary understanding of health - Tom Kirkwood 2. Evolutionary explanation of health - Michael Rose 3. Biodemographic perspective on social health – Jay Olshansky   4. Biological health and homeodynamic space – Suresh Rattan  Sociology/psychology 5. Epidemiological view of health – Alex Broadbent, & Likhwa Ncube 6. Healthy society – Uffe Juul Jensen 7. Public health – Carsten Obel 8. Social relations and health – Robert Zachariae  Philosophy 9. Philosophical concepts of health – Jonathan Sholl & Maël Lemoine 10. Interdisciplinary health – Jan-Pieter Konsman 11. Health and authenticity – Des O´Neill Section 2: Health across systems Biological structural aspects 12. Healthy nervous system - Vittorio Calabrese 13. Healthy face – Tine Hjorth 14. Healthy immune system 15. Immunity and health - Tamas Fülöp, Jacek Witkowski 16. Healthy heart – Olé Færgeman 17. Healthy skeletal system – Moustapha Kassem 18. Healthy blood – Syed Rizvi 19. Molecular biomarkers of health – Jan Nehlin 20. Healthy genome – Robi Tacutu  Functional aspects 21. Healthy sleep – Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi & Julien Coelho 22. Healthy sexuality – Andreas De Block 23. Healthy mind – Robert Zachariae 24. Healthy psyche – Dominic Murphy and Caitrin Donovan  Ecological aspects 25. Healthy organism – Anders Olsen 26. Health in non-human animals/organisms – Henrik Lerner 27. Environmental perspective on health – Ed Calabrese  Section 3: Health in practice 28. Healthspan versus lifespan – Eric Le Bourg 29. Health and immortality – Ilia Stambler 30. Health versus frailty – Arnold Mitnitski 31. Health in clinical practice – Marios Kyriazis 32. Health and pro-longevity interventions – Alex Vaiserman 33. Regulatory understanding of health – Ed Calabrese 34. Health in AI-driven healthcare – J.C Bjerring and Jacob Busch  Section 4: Bringing health back together 35. Reflections/Conversations on integrated explanations of health with short response to question: Can there be an integrated science of health? (to be compiled by the editors based on the response of all authors).

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This book stands alone in the field in terms of a clinical/theoretical aging book. ... Interest will come from those who want a larger, whole-picture view of aging. (Wendy Boren, Doody's Book Reviews, November 6, 2020)


“This book stands alone in the field in terms of a clinical/theoretical aging book. … Interest will come from those who want a larger, whole-picture view of aging.” (Wendy Boren, Doody's Book Reviews, November 6, 2020)


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