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Genetic Medicine

Name: Genetic Medicine
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780801874420
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780801874420

A Logic of Disease

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By Barton Childs
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: November 14, 2003
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 344

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In Genetic Medicine: A Logic of Disease, Barton Childs demonstrates that knowledge of the ways both genes and environment contribute to disease provides a rational basis for medical thinking. This ''genetic'' medicine, he explains, should help the physician use the results of laboratory tests to perceive the uniqueness of the patient as well as that of the family and the cultural conditions in which the patient's condition arose. Childs thus provides a conceptual framework within which to teach and practice a humane medicine.

Contents:1. IntroductionI. MEDICAL THINKING

2. Inborn Errors and Chemical Individuality

3. The Transition from Oslerian to Garrodian Medicine

4. Individuality and Causes

5. Definitions of DiseaseII. A LOGIC OF DISEASE

6. Biology and Medicine: Contrasts and Convergences

7. A SynthesisIII. SPECIES IDENTITY

8. Lessons from PhylogenyIV. ADAPTIVE FLEXIBILITY: HOMEOSTASIS AND DEVELOPMENT

9. Physiological Homeostasis: The Homeostasis of the Moment

10. Genetic Homeostasis: The Past

11. Developmental Homeostasis: The Lifetime

12. Sociocultural Homeostasis

13. Homeostatic InteractionsV. DESCENT WITH MODIFICATION: GENETIC VARIATION

14. What is a Gene?

15. The Paths of Gene Action

16. Whatever Is, Is Variable

17. The Semantics of Genetics

18. Classification of DiseaseVI. REPRODUCTION, FREQUENCY, AND CONTINUITY

19. The Diploid State

20. Gene Frequency

21. Heterogeneity

22. Unity and Continuity of Disease

23. Heritability

24. InfectionsVII. AN ANALYSIS OF DISEASE IN THREE TIME FRAMES

25. The Moment: Type I Diabetes

26. The Lifetime

27. Biological and Social History, and a Vision of Disease in Three Time FramesVIII. THE LOGIC AND MODERN MEDICINE

28. The Human Genome Project

29. The Medical-Genetic Synthesis and Society

30. A Basis for Medical Education

""This book is highly recommended for a wide variety of audiences in addition to physicians and medical students: ethicists, anthropologists, social workers, nurses, and other members of the health profession. Hospital administrators, insurance personnel, and lawyers could also benefit, particularly in this day of managed care. Members of curriculum committees of medical schools and public health schools could also benefit. Fortunately, some of Childs's concepts are being applied to medical teaching already, but I know of no better synthesis in one book.""

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