Survival of the Sickest(多病长寿)

Book Description
A magical medical mystery tour filled with monsters, madmen, invaders, aliens, folk tales, fever dreams, mysteries, miracles ,survival, creation, medicine, and myth...

How did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Will a visit to the tanning salon help lower your cholesterol? Why do we age? Why are some people immune to HIV? Can your genes be turned on - or off?

Survival of the Sickest reveals the answers to these and many other questions as it unravels the amazing connections between evolution, disease, and human health today.

Joining the ranks of modern myth busters, Dr.Sharon Moalem turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies, our health, and our relationship to just about every other living thing on earth, from plants and animals to insects and bacteria. This is a book about the interconnectedness of all life on earth - and, especially, what that means for us.

Book Dimension
length: (cm)22.9 　　　　　　　　　　　　　 width:(cm)14.9

Sharon Moalem has a Ph.D.in human physiology and in the emerging fields of neurogenetics and evolutionary medicine. His research discovered a new genetic association for familial Alzheimer's disease. Dr.Moalem has also published papers in a wide variety of fields, from honeybee immunology to the evolutionary advantages of disease. He continues to work as a researcher while finishing his medical training at New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Moalem lives in New York City.

Jonathan Prince was a senior adviser in the Clinton White House, was a speechwriter for President Clinton, and oversaw communications strategy at NATO during the war in Kosovo. He was named one of America's Best and Brightest by Esquire in 2005 for his work to improve political advertising. With former U.S. senator John Edwards and Edwards's daughter Cate, Prince edited Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives.