Explaining health across the sciences

by Rattan, Suresh I. S. Sholl, Jonathan

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Full title :Explaining health across the sciences / Jonathan Sholl, Suresh I.S. Rattan, editors.

Summary

This edited volume aims to better understand the multifaceted phenomenon we call health. Going beyond simple views of health as the absence of disease or as complete well-being, this book unites scientists and philosophers. The contributions clarify the links between health and adaptation, robustness, resilience, or dynamic homeostasis, and discuss how to achieve health and healthy aging through practices such as hormesis. The book is divided into three parts and a conclusion: the first part explains health from within specific disciplines, the second part explores health from the perspective of a bodily part, system, function, or even the environment in which organisms live, and the final part looks at more clinical or practical perspectives. It thereby gathers, across 30 chapters, diverse perspectives from the broad fields of evolutionary and systems biology, immunology, and biogerontology, more specific areas such as odontology, cardiology, neurology, and public health, as well as philosophical reflections on mental health, sexuality, authenticity and medical theories. The overarching aim is to inform, inspire and encourage intellectuals from various disciplines to assess whether explanations in these disparate fields and across biological levels can be sufficiently systematized and unified to clarify the complexity of health. It will be particularly useful for medical graduates, philosophy graduates and research professionals in the life sciences and general medicine, as well as for upper-level graduate philosophy of science students.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer
Place of Publication:Cham, Switzerland
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030526634, 3030526631, 3030526623, 9783030526627
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-52663-4
oclc:on1192311142
LC Classification:RA776
Dewey Decimal:613

Section 1: Health across disciplines Biology1. Evolutionary understanding of health -- Tom Kirkwood2. Evolutionary explanation of health -- Michael Rose3. Biodemographic perspective on social health - Jay Olshansky 4. Biological health and homeodynamic space - Suresh Rattan Sociology/psychology5. Epidemiological view of health - Alex Broadbent, & Likhwa Ncube6. Healthy society - Uffe Juul Jensen7. Public health - Carsten Obel8. Social relations and health - Robert Zachariae Philosophy9. Philosophical concepts of health - Jonathan Sholl & Maël Lemoine10. Interdisciplinary health - Jan-Pieter Konsman11. Health and authenticity - Des O´Neill Section 2: Health across systems Biological structural aspects12. Healthy nervous system -- Vittorio Calabrese13. Healthy face - Tine Hjorth14. Healthy immune system15. Immunity and health -- Tamas Fülöp, Jacek Witkowski16. Healthy heart - Olé Færgeman17. Healthy skeletal system - Moustapha Kassem18.

Healthy blood -- Syed Rizvi19. Molecular biomarkers of health -- Jan Nehlin20. Healthy genome -- Robi Tacutu Functional aspects21. Healthy sleep -- Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi & Julien Coelho22. Healthy sexuality -- Andreas De Block23. Healthy min…

Subjects

Ciències de la salut Disease Diseases health Health -- Philosophy Llibres electrònics Maladies Medical -- General MEDICAL -- Research Medical ethics Medicine: general issues Philosophy Philosophy of science Salut Santé Santé -- Philosophie SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects