Metabolism and medicine : the physics of biological engines. Volume 1 / Brian Fertig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fertig, Brian, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Foundations of biochemistry and biophysics

Foundations of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metabolism--Regulation.

Metabolism.

Metabolism--Disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 338 pages).

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Brian Fertig is a clinical endocrinologist, with almost 30 years of clinical experience. He is Chairman of the Department of Diabetes & Endocrinology Hackensack Meridian Health at JFK University Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey and Associate Professor of Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University School of Medicine with an expertise in metabolism. He is also Founder of the Diabetes and Osteoporosis Center. Jack Tuszynski is a a Professor in the Department of Physics of the University of Alberta and a Fellow of the National Institute for Nanotechnology of Canada. Between 2005 and 2020 he held the position of the Allard Chair and Professor in the Department of Oncology at the University of Alberta⁰́₉s Cross Cancer Institute.

Contents:

ContentsPreface to Volume One

Prologue

Acknowledgments

Personal Statements

1. Biological Thermodynamics: On Energy, Information, and Its Evil Twin, Entropy

2. Biological Engines and the Molecular Machinery of Life

3. From Quantum Biology to Quantum Medicine

4. From Systems Biology to Systems Medicine

5. Introduction to the Roadmap of Future Medicine: The Physiological Fitness Landscape

6. Science Seen Through the Lessons of Life

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781003149873

1003149871

9781000472158

1000472159

9781000472134

1000472132

Publisher Number:

99989551254

9781003149873

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