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Author Hong, Yun-Chul, author

Title The changing era of diseases / Yun-Chul Hong
Published London : Elsevier, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 192 pages)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 31, 2019)
Subject Diseases -- Social aspects
Epidemiology.
Health -- Social aspects
Environmentally induced diseases.
Emerging infectious diseases.
Longevity.
Immune system.
Chronic Disease -- trends
Communicable Diseases, Emerging
Environmental Illness
Longevity
Immune System Phenomena
Epidemiology
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
Longevity
Immune system
Emerging infectious diseases
Diseases -- Social aspects
Environmentally induced diseases
Epidemiology
Health -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780128165812
0128165812