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Survival Of The Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease And Longevity - Sharon Moalem
Survival Of The Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease And Longevity
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ISBN: 9780007256549 (000725654X)
Edition language: English
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3.0 Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers the Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity
Survival of the Sickest explores the connections between evolution, disease, and current human health. This book is extremely interesting and engaging, despite the cheesey puns. However, I had hoped for more - more science/medical details, more examples of the evolution-disease-health connections....
Wyvernfriend Reads
Wyvernfriend Reads rated it
4.0 Survival of the Sickest - A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
It's a light look at a variety of diseases and why it would be that they would continue to survive and perpetuate their genes. In the end it leaves a lot of questions, which is only right. Science often hasn't got a clue and a lot of this book is as much speculation as fact, but it admits this.
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Cassandra Reads rated it
3.0 Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity [Sharon Moalem, Jonathan Prince]
This book doesn't really live up to it's promise. It's very interesting, but I felt like the author kept getting sidetracked by other, related, things to the main theme. The audio book was kind of annoying because it had parts with music in it and it really confused me. That's the main reason this b...
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4.0 Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity (P.S.)
This book reminds me very strongly of Freakonomics. I don't know about Dr. Moalem being a "maverick," but he does take the unconventional approach to dealing with common health problems by looking at how our most common and serious ailments (heart disease, obesity, skin cancer and vitamin d deficien...
Wyvernfriend Reads
Wyvernfriend Reads rated it
5.0 Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
It's a light look at a variety of diseases and why it would be that they would continue to survive and perpetuate their genes. In the end it leaves a lot of questions, which is only right. Science often hasn't got a clue and a lot of this book is as much speculation as fact, but it admits this.
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