Reviews for Evolution and Healing: New Science of Darwinian Medicine

The average rating for Evolution and Healing: New Science of Darwinian Medicine based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-10-29 00:00:00 Elvin Parson This was some really good science writing!! Free of jargon and engagingly written throughout. Funnily enough it was not informative for the course that my prof recommended it for, but glad I picked it up nonetheless.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-12-20 00:00:00 John LeMaster A interesting book about how evolutionary thought can help medicine. It is mostly used as a perspective through which to make sense of medical diagnosis and abnormalities. Here under also talking about mental illness. The most salient points though are in communication to patients as most modern medical diagnosis is given without a central perspective more like a hodgepodge of ideas with no guiding idea. This is where evolution would be able to come in without to much trouble. That it is not given by use of antibiotics now is somewhat suspect since why should the patient be certain to kill all bacteria if you don`t need to stop resistance. The main problem with the book is how speculative it is and how hard it would be to get a lot of the ideas into modern medicine while the authors are a bit to optimistic. Still a interesting read if you want to know about possible changes to the medical complex