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ISBN: 0-12-816581-2

Anmerkung: 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.

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-12-816439-5

Sprache: Englisch