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Note: Front Cover -- The Changing Era of Diseases -- The Changing Era of Diseases -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Overview -- 1. Can We Live in a Disease-Free World? -- 2. Pandemic of Chronic Diseases and the Late Chronic Diseases -- 3. Changing View of Disease -- 4. What Next After the End of "the Era of Diseases"? -- 5. Composition of This Book -- 1 - From the Origin of Disease to Pandemic Infectious Diseases -- 1.1 The Emergence of Diseases -- Humankind undergoes physical and intellectual development -- Hunter-gatherers suffered from infectious diseases but never from communicable diseases -- Civilization gave birth to diseases -- Livestock breeding changes the disease pattern of humankind -- Is disease a punishment from god? -- 1.2 Humankind Begins to See Disease Through the Eyes of Reason -- Reason leaps forward -- Hippocrates brings down disease from god's domain to the human domain -- Rising to the center of western medicine through anatomical knowledge -- Oriental medicine took a different path from western medicine -- 1.3 Epidemics Changed History -- Conditions ripe for epidemics of infectious disease -- Smallpox brought the fear of epidemics -- The black death ends feudalism and makes powerful nations appear -- Influence of epidemics in the history of the west and the east -- Medicine equipped with the potential to develop into a science -- 1.4 Biomedical View of Diseases as the Basis of Modern Medicine -- The industrial revolution spreads tuberculosis and cholera -- Emergence of modern medicine, which assumes the specific cause of a specific disease -- Disease-centered instead of patient-centered medicine -- Western medicine replaces traditional oriental medicine in the east -- 2 - The Age of Chronic and Late Chronic Diseases: A New View of Diseases -- 2.1 Humankind Enters the Age of Chronic Diseases. , The age of epidemics finally draws to an end -- Chronic disease accounts for two-thirds of all deaths in the 21st century -- Genetic mutation is not the main cause of a chronic disease -- Mankind's changing living environment causes chronic diseases -- Age of chronic diseases: from the disease-centered approach to the people-centered approach -- 2.2 The Age of Late Chronic Diseases Is Looming -- Fast-changing aspects of disease -- Chronic diseases decrease in developed countries and increase in underdeveloped countries and among the lower classes -- Can the advancement of medicine end chronic diseases? -- Another disease emerges following chronic diseases -- 2.3 Disease Occurs When Harmony and Balance of the System Are Breached -- The human body is composed of complex systems -- Approaching disease with a new view -- Avoid the fallacy of exaggeration and oversimplification -- Decoding the black box for the identification of the cause -- 2.4 A Step Closer to the Closure of Disease Era -- Identifying the complex systems affecting disease -- The flow of time affects the development of a disease -- Systems medicine approach is needed -- From standardized treatment to customized treatment -- A step closer to the conquest of disease -- 3 - Five Strategies of Our Body to Fight Disease -- 3.1 Humanity to Live With Microorganisms in a Symbiotic Relationship -- Leap of life founded on coexistence with other species -- Mitochondria were born thanks to the symbiosis with different bacteria -- Humans and microorganisms: indispensable companions for each other -- We get sick when our partnership with microorganisms breaks down -- Symbiosis with microorganisms, the key defense strategy of the human body to prevent disease occurrence -- 3.2 Strengthening the Body's Defense Against Toxins -- The flexible poison metabolism system in our body. , The proteins in the body work together to remove toxins -- Toxic chemicals are the main cause of oxidative stress -- The first step in disease prevention: avoid contact with toxins -- 3.3 Improve Your Immunity to Protect Yourself From Intruders -- Immunity, the ability to protect oneself from external substances -- Two-stage immunity shield -- Diseases arising from the inability to distinguish friendly and enemy forces -- How to normalize the immune function -- 3.4 People Should Go Through a Healthy Aging Process -- The human brain, the most complex system in the human body -- Why do our excellent brains fall to neurodegenerative diseases as we age? -- Aging, the price to pay for youth -- How to ensure a healthy aging process -- 3.5 Functions of the Human Body Will Be Strengthened -- Regeneration, another recovery mechanism of our body -- Limited human regeneration capability -- Stem cell therapy capitalizing on its regenerative capability -- Enhancement of the human function and gene therapy -- 4 - Method of Ending Disease and the Future Medical System -- 4.1 Systems and Precision Medicine, the Shortcut for Ending Disease -- From disease-centered strategy to comprehensive health management! -- The human body program must adapt to the changing environment -- Need for urgent changes in medical education -- Future hospitals and medical systems -- A shortcut to ending disease: systems medicine -- 4.2 Global Strategy for the Borderless Disease -- Personal practices and community-level efforts to end disease -- Urban environment determines our health -- The danger of globalization: the era of borderless disease -- Ending disease through the globalization of medical care -- 4.3 Epidemic of Mental Illness Comes to Torment Humankind to the Very End -- Disease management strategy in the wake of the network revolution. , Reduced physical activity and increased mental activity -- Increased mental labor shakes up the age-old physiological equilibrium of the human body -- Dependence on aI lowers one's self-esteem -- Existential anxiety triggers an explosion of mental illness -- 4.4 Economic and Social Inequities Lead to Biological Inequalities -- Uncertainty of the future leads to humanity's crisis -- Can humankind greet a utopia where disease has been terminated? -- Biological inequalities can lead to dystopia -- Enhanced human abilities, another potential tool for domination -- Stopping the tragedy of H. sapiens becoming slaves -- 5 - After the End of Chronic Disease -- 5.1 Extension of Aging or of Youth? -- Eternal life, the elusive dream of humanity -- How long can we live? -- Markedly increased warranty period for life -- Extension of aging or youth -- 5.2 Another Crisis of Humanity Looms Large With the End of Disease -- Decreased mortality lowers the overall fertility rates -- Increasing lifespan could abolish the traditional family relationships -- Construction of a new community more attuned to the network society -- Emergence of invisible absolute power -- The end of current diseases can invite new diseases -- 5.3 Pondering Life and Death -- Life changes toward death -- Death: a device to sustain life -- Aging is a natural phenomenon -- The paradox of eternal life -- Death, a prerequisite for life -- 5.4 For the Sustainability of the Human Community -- Biological evolution is over -- Exponential speed of change -- From the holocene to the anthropocene epoch -- New environment, new diseases -- An organism, the human community -- Epilogue -- 1. For Conquering Diseases -- 2. Let's Prepare for the Next Chapter of History -- 3. Finishing This Book -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S. , T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Back Cover.

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Note: Front Cover -- The Changing Era of Diseases -- The Changing Era of Diseases -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Overview -- 1. Can We Live in a Disease-Free World? -- 2. Pandemic of Chronic Diseases and the Late Chronic Diseases -- 3. Changing View of Disease -- 4. What Next After the End of "the Era of Diseases"? -- 5. Composition of This Book -- 1 - From the Origin of Disease to Pandemic Infectious Diseases -- 1.1 The Emergence of Diseases -- Humankind undergoes physical and intellectual development -- Hunter-gatherers suffered from infectious diseases but never from communicable diseases -- Civilization gave birth to diseases -- Livestock breeding changes the disease pattern of humankind -- Is disease a punishment from god? -- 1.2 Humankind Begins to See Disease Through the Eyes of Reason -- Reason leaps forward -- Hippocrates brings down disease from god's domain to the human domain -- Rising to the center of western medicine through anatomical knowledge -- Oriental medicine took a different path from western medicine -- 1.3 Epidemics Changed History -- Conditions ripe for epidemics of infectious disease -- Smallpox brought the fear of epidemics -- The black death ends feudalism and makes powerful nations appear -- Influence of epidemics in the history of the west and the east -- Medicine equipped with the potential to develop into a science -- 1.4 Biomedical View of Diseases as the Basis of Modern Medicine -- The industrial revolution spreads tuberculosis and cholera -- Emergence of modern medicine, which assumes the specific cause of a specific disease -- Disease-centered instead of patient-centered medicine -- Western medicine replaces traditional oriental medicine in the east -- 2 - The Age of Chronic and Late Chronic Diseases: A New View of Diseases -- 2.1 Humankind Enters the Age of Chronic Diseases. , The age of epidemics finally draws to an end -- Chronic disease accounts for two-thirds of all deaths in the 21st century -- Genetic mutation is not the main cause of a chronic disease -- Mankind's changing living environment causes chronic diseases -- Age of chronic diseases: from the disease-centered approach to the people-centered approach -- 2.2 The Age of Late Chronic Diseases Is Looming -- Fast-changing aspects of disease -- Chronic diseases decrease in developed countries and increase in underdeveloped countries and among the lower classes -- Can the advancement of medicine end chronic diseases? -- Another disease emerges following chronic diseases -- 2.3 Disease Occurs When Harmony and Balance of the System Are Breached -- The human body is composed of complex systems -- Approaching disease with a new view -- Avoid the fallacy of exaggeration and oversimplification -- Decoding the black box for the identification of the cause -- 2.4 A Step Closer to the Closure of Disease Era -- Identifying the complex systems affecting disease -- The flow of time affects the development of a disease -- Systems medicine approach is needed -- From standardized treatment to customized treatment -- A step closer to the conquest of disease -- 3 - Five Strategies of Our Body to Fight Disease -- 3.1 Humanity to Live With Microorganisms in a Symbiotic Relationship -- Leap of life founded on coexistence with other species -- Mitochondria were born thanks to the symbiosis with different bacteria -- Humans and microorganisms: indispensable companions for each other -- We get sick when our partnership with microorganisms breaks down -- Symbiosis with microorganisms, the key defense strategy of the human body to prevent disease occurrence -- 3.2 Strengthening the Body's Defense Against Toxins -- The flexible poison metabolism system in our body. , The proteins in the body work together to remove toxins -- Toxic chemicals are the main cause of oxidative stress -- The first step in disease prevention: avoid contact with toxins -- 3.3 Improve Your Immunity to Protect Yourself From Intruders -- Immunity, the ability to protect oneself from external substances -- Two-stage immunity shield -- Diseases arising from the inability to distinguish friendly and enemy forces -- How to normalize the immune function -- 3.4 People Should Go Through a Healthy Aging Process -- The human brain, the most complex system in the human body -- Why do our excellent brains fall to neurodegenerative diseases as we age? -- Aging, the price to pay for youth -- How to ensure a healthy aging process -- 3.5 Functions of the Human Body Will Be Strengthened -- Regeneration, another recovery mechanism of our body -- Limited human regeneration capability -- Stem cell therapy capitalizing on its regenerative capability -- Enhancement of the human function and gene therapy -- 4 - Method of Ending Disease and the Future Medical System -- 4.1 Systems and Precision Medicine, the Shortcut for Ending Disease -- From disease-centered strategy to comprehensive health management! -- The human body program must adapt to the changing environment -- Need for urgent changes in medical education -- Future hospitals and medical systems -- A shortcut to ending disease: systems medicine -- 4.2 Global Strategy for the Borderless Disease -- Personal practices and community-level efforts to end disease -- Urban environment determines our health -- The danger of globalization: the era of borderless disease -- Ending disease through the globalization of medical care -- 4.3 Epidemic of Mental Illness Comes to Torment Humankind to the Very End -- Disease management strategy in the wake of the network revolution. , Reduced physical activity and increased mental activity -- Increased mental labor shakes up the age-old physiological equilibrium of the human body -- Dependence on aI lowers one's self-esteem -- Existential anxiety triggers an explosion of mental illness -- 4.4 Economic and Social Inequities Lead to Biological Inequalities -- Uncertainty of the future leads to humanity's crisis -- Can humankind greet a utopia where disease has been terminated? -- Biological inequalities can lead to dystopia -- Enhanced human abilities, another potential tool for domination -- Stopping the tragedy of H. sapiens becoming slaves -- 5 - After the End of Chronic Disease -- 5.1 Extension of Aging or of Youth? -- Eternal life, the elusive dream of humanity -- How long can we live? -- Markedly increased warranty period for life -- Extension of aging or youth -- 5.2 Another Crisis of Humanity Looms Large With the End of Disease -- Decreased mortality lowers the overall fertility rates -- Increasing lifespan could abolish the traditional family relationships -- Construction of a new community more attuned to the network society -- Emergence of invisible absolute power -- The end of current diseases can invite new diseases -- 5.3 Pondering Life and Death -- Life changes toward death -- Death: a device to sustain life -- Aging is a natural phenomenon -- The paradox of eternal life -- Death, a prerequisite for life -- 5.4 For the Sustainability of the Human Community -- Biological evolution is over -- Exponential speed of change -- From the holocene to the anthropocene epoch -- New environment, new diseases -- An organism, the human community -- Epilogue -- 1. For Conquering Diseases -- 2. Let's Prepare for the Next Chapter of History -- 3. Finishing This Book -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S. , T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Back Cover.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-12-816439-5

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 0-12-816581-2

Note: Front Cover -- The Changing Era of Diseases -- The Changing Era of Diseases -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Overview -- 1. Can We Live in a Disease-Free World? -- 2. Pandemic of Chronic Diseases and the Late Chronic Diseases -- 3. Changing View of Disease -- 4. What Next After the End of "the Era of Diseases"? -- 5. Composition of This Book -- 1 - From the Origin of Disease to Pandemic Infectious Diseases -- 1.1 The Emergence of Diseases -- Humankind undergoes physical and intellectual development -- Hunter-gatherers suffered from infectious diseases but never from communicable diseases -- Civilization gave birth to diseases -- Livestock breeding changes the disease pattern of humankind -- Is disease a punishment from god? -- 1.2 Humankind Begins to See Disease Through the Eyes of Reason -- Reason leaps forward -- Hippocrates brings down disease from god's domain to the human domain -- Rising to the center of western medicine through anatomical knowledge -- Oriental medicine took a different path from western medicine -- 1.3 Epidemics Changed History -- Conditions ripe for epidemics of infectious disease -- Smallpox brought the fear of epidemics -- The black death ends feudalism and makes powerful nations appear -- Influence of epidemics in the history of the west and the east -- Medicine equipped with the potential to develop into a science -- 1.4 Biomedical View of Diseases as the Basis of Modern Medicine -- The industrial revolution spreads tuberculosis and cholera -- Emergence of modern medicine, which assumes the specific cause of a specific disease -- Disease-centered instead of patient-centered medicine -- Western medicine replaces traditional oriental medicine in the east -- 2 - The Age of Chronic and Late Chronic Diseases: A New View of Diseases -- 2.1 Humankind Enters the Age of Chronic Diseases. , The age of epidemics finally draws to an end -- Chronic disease accounts for two-thirds of all deaths in the 21st century -- Genetic mutation is not the main cause of a chronic disease -- Mankind's changing living environment causes chronic diseases -- Age of chronic diseases: from the disease-centered approach to the people-centered approach -- 2.2 The Age of Late Chronic Diseases Is Looming -- Fast-changing aspects of disease -- Chronic diseases decrease in developed countries and increase in underdeveloped countries and among the lower classes -- Can the advancement of medicine end chronic diseases? -- Another disease emerges following chronic diseases -- 2.3 Disease Occurs When Harmony and Balance of the System Are Breached -- The human body is composed of complex systems -- Approaching disease with a new view -- Avoid the fallacy of exaggeration and oversimplification -- Decoding the black box for the identification of the cause -- 2.4 A Step Closer to the Closure of Disease Era -- Identifying the complex systems affecting disease -- The flow of time affects the development of a disease -- Systems medicine approach is needed -- From standardized treatment to customized treatment -- A step closer to the conquest of disease -- 3 - Five Strategies of Our Body to Fight Disease -- 3.1 Humanity to Live With Microorganisms in a Symbiotic Relationship -- Leap of life founded on coexistence with other species -- Mitochondria were born thanks to the symbiosis with different bacteria -- Humans and microorganisms: indispensable companions for each other -- We get sick when our partnership with microorganisms breaks down -- Symbiosis with microorganisms, the key defense strategy of the human body to prevent disease occurrence -- 3.2 Strengthening the Body's Defense Against Toxins -- The flexible poison metabolism system in our body. , The proteins in the body work together to remove toxins -- Toxic chemicals are the main cause of oxidative stress -- The first step in disease prevention: avoid contact with toxins -- 3.3 Improve Your Immunity to Protect Yourself From Intruders -- Immunity, the ability to protect oneself from external substances -- Two-stage immunity shield -- Diseases arising from the inability to distinguish friendly and enemy forces -- How to normalize the immune function -- 3.4 People Should Go Through a Healthy Aging Process -- The human brain, the most complex system in the human body -- Why do our excellent brains fall to neurodegenerative diseases as we age? -- Aging, the price to pay for youth -- How to ensure a healthy aging process -- 3.5 Functions of the Human Body Will Be Strengthened -- Regeneration, another recovery mechanism of our body -- Limited human regeneration capability -- Stem cell therapy capitalizing on its regenerative capability -- Enhancement of the human function and gene therapy -- 4 - Method of Ending Disease and the Future Medical System -- 4.1 Systems and Precision Medicine, the Shortcut for Ending Disease -- From disease-centered strategy to comprehensive health management! -- The human body program must adapt to the changing environment -- Need for urgent changes in medical education -- Future hospitals and medical systems -- A shortcut to ending disease: systems medicine -- 4.2 Global Strategy for the Borderless Disease -- Personal practices and community-level efforts to end disease -- Urban environment determines our health -- The danger of globalization: the era of borderless disease -- Ending disease through the globalization of medical care -- 4.3 Epidemic of Mental Illness Comes to Torment Humankind to the Very End -- Disease management strategy in the wake of the network revolution. , Reduced physical activity and increased mental activity -- Increased mental labor shakes up the age-old physiological equilibrium of the human body -- Dependence on aI lowers one's self-esteem -- Existential anxiety triggers an explosion of mental illness -- 4.4 Economic and Social Inequities Lead to Biological Inequalities -- Uncertainty of the future leads to humanity's crisis -- Can humankind greet a utopia where disease has been terminated? -- Biological inequalities can lead to dystopia -- Enhanced human abilities, another potential tool for domination -- Stopping the tragedy of H. sapiens becoming slaves -- 5 - After the End of Chronic Disease -- 5.1 Extension of Aging or of Youth? -- Eternal life, the elusive dream of humanity -- How long can we live? -- Markedly increased warranty period for life -- Extension of aging or youth -- 5.2 Another Crisis of Humanity Looms Large With the End of Disease -- Decreased mortality lowers the overall fertility rates -- Increasing lifespan could abolish the traditional family relationships -- Construction of a new community more attuned to the network society -- Emergence of invisible absolute power -- The end of current diseases can invite new diseases -- 5.3 Pondering Life and Death -- Life changes toward death -- Death: a device to sustain life -- Aging is a natural phenomenon -- The paradox of eternal life -- Death, a prerequisite for life -- 5.4 For the Sustainability of the Human Community -- Biological evolution is over -- Exponential speed of change -- From the holocene to the anthropocene epoch -- New environment, new diseases -- An organism, the human community -- Epilogue -- 1. For Conquering Diseases -- 2. Let's Prepare for the Next Chapter of History -- 3. Finishing This Book -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S. , T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Back Cover.

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Series Statement: Pain and its Origins, Diagnosis and Treatments

Content: While covering human history, civilization, and diseases to reveal why humans are sick with many ailments, this book provides the answers to the questions: ""When, why, and how did humans contract all kinds of infectious and chronic diseases?"" The increasing occurrence of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, asthma and cancer does not simply denote increment in the incidence of diseases, but a pathological phenomenon that reflects the condition of humanity's current environment. With humanity's graduation from the era of hunter-gatherers, infectious diseases and nutritional di

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , THE ORIGIN OF DISEASES; THE ORIGIN OF DISEASES; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; Contents; Preface; Overview; What on Earth Has Happened in the Past 10,000 Years?; Misguided Ideas on the Causes of Diseases; Genes Yet to Adapt to a Given Environment; Diseases Are Purely Man-Made after All; New Challenges; Chapter I:Human Genes and the Environment; Cause of Diseases: Not Two but One; The Agricultural Revolution Opensthe Age of Disease; What Impact did Human Migration Haveon the Occurrence of Disease?; Genes Accused with a False Charge , Chapter II:The Eight Key Environmental FactorsStumbled Upon a Dilemmain Nutritional Intake; Climate Change Lurking behindthe Emergence of Disease; Is Sunlight Responsible for the Spreadof Chronic Diseases?; Since When Have Humans Been Goodat Long-Distance Running?; Alcohol: Its Dual Role; Our Body Has Yet to Adapt to Cigarettes; The Industrial Revolution, a Hotbedfor All Sorts of Diseases; The Fatal Legacy of the Use of Fossil Fuels; Chapter III:The Eight Key Diseases; Full-fledged Invasion of Pathogens; We Are Programmed to Gain Weight; Causes of the Epidemic Spreadof Diabetes Mellitus , Variation in the Risk of Hypertensionby RegionOnce a Beneficial Gene, Now a Culpritfor Cardiovascular Diseases; Immature Defense System CausesAllergic Diseases; Cancer: A Purely Man-made Disease; Modern Society Prompts Depression; Chapter IV:New Challenges; Beyond the Age of Chronic Diseases; How Long Can We Expect to Live?; Aging-related Disease, a Price to Pay; Amidst the Turning Tide; References; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Epilogue; Diseases Caused by the Civilization; 3 Key Strategies to Prevent Diseases; The Role of Communities; Blank Page; Index , English

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