The changing era of diseases / Yun-Chul Hong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hong, Yun-Chul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diseases--Social aspects.

Diseases.

Epidemiology.

Health--Social aspects.

Health.

Environmentally induced diseases.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 192 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Elsevier, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

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

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 31, 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Hong, Yun-Chul. Changing era of diseases.

ISBN:

9780128165812

0128165812

OCLC:

1083457559

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Restricted for use by site license.