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| I. | The Gardens of Eden | 1 |
| The Golden Ages | ||
| The Return to Nature | ||
| Health through Science | ||
| Health as Adaptation | ||
| II. | Biological and Social Adaptation | 30 |
| The Haunts of Life | ||
| Biological Adaptations in Man | ||
| Adaptation through Instinctive Patterns of Behavior | ||
| Adaptation through Social Mechanisms | ||
| Unstability of Ecological Systems | ||
| Social Determinants of Human Fitness | ||
| III. | Struggle and Partnership in the Living World | 62 |
| The Struggle for Existence | ||
| Man and the World of Microbes | ||
| Infection versus Disease | ||
| Adaptive Mechanisms of Resistance to Infection | ||
| Symbiosis and Parasitism | ||
| IV. | Environment and Disease | 95 |
| The Weather, the Potato Blight, and the Destiny of the Irish | ||
| The Doctrine of Specific Etiology | ||
| Direct and Indirect Effects of the External Environment | ||
| The Internal Environment | ||
| Interplays between the External and the Internal Environment | ||
| The Past as Factor of the Environment | ||
| V. | Hygeia and Asclepius | 129 |
| Gods of Health | ||
| Hippocratic Wisdom and the Goldheaded Cane | ||
| The Philosopher's Search for Health | ||
| The Magic Bullets of Medicine | ||
| Drugs and the Conquest of Disease | ||
| Orthobiosis | ||
| VI. | Social Patterns of Health and of Disease | 170 |
| The History of Diseases | ||
| Hunger and Surfeit | ||
| The Diseases of Pestilence and of Sanitation | ||
| Modern Horsemen of the Apocalypse | ||
| From Madness to Boredom | ||
| Medicine and Society | ||
| VII. | Effects of Disease on Populations and on Civilization | 220 |
| Food, Disease, and Population Trends | ||
| Effects of Disease and Nutrition on Military and Political History | ||
| Disease and Social Evolution | ||
| Effects of Disease on Cultural Forces | ||
| VIII. | Utopias and Human Goals | 258 |
| Arcadias and Utopias | ||
| From Biological Adaptation to Social Evolution | ||
| Social Changes and Ecological Equilibria | ||
| Health, Happiness, and Human Values | ||
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| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Donald Cline
reviewed Mirage of health on March 13, 2019
Mirage of health
Lots of interesting facts and insightful analysis for which I give the book 4 stars. I take a star off as it was a somewhat difficult book to follow, largely due to the wide territory it covered, and also the language style which was a strange mix of straightforward and almost impenetrable. It was written in 1959 which may explain this to an extent. It showed me up as being a bit of an impatient and lazy reader unfortunately, or maybe just lacking the smarts required to breeze through and easily integrate all the knowledge!!
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