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Explaining Health Across the Sciences

Paperback Engels 2021 9783030526658
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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, andpublic 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.

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ISBN13:9783030526658
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Springer International Publishing

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Section 1: Health across disciplines<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Biology</div><div>1. Evolutionary understanding of health - Tom Kirkwood</div><div>2. Evolutionary explanation of health - Michael Rose</div><div>3. Biodemographic perspective on social health – Jay Olshansky&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>4. Biological health and homeodynamic space – Suresh Rattan&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Sociology/psychology</div><div>5. Epidemiological view of health – Alex Broadbent, & Likhwa Ncube</div><div>6. Healthy society – Uffe Juul Jensen</div><div>7. Public health – Carsten Obel</div><div>8. Social relations and health – Robert Zachariae&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Philosophy</div><div>9. Philosophical concepts of health – Jonathan Sholl & Maël Lemoine</div><div>10. Interdisciplinary health – Jan-Pieter Konsman</div><div>11. Health and authenticity – Des O´Neill</div><div><br></div><div>Section 2: Health across systems</div><div><br></div><div>Biological structural aspects</div><div>12.Healthy nervous system - Vittorio Calabrese</div><div>13. Healthy face – Tine Hjorth</div><div>14. Healthy immune system</div><div>15. Immunity and health - Tamas Fülöp, Jacek Witkowski</div><div>16. Healthy heart – Olé Færgeman</div><div>17. Healthy skeletal system – Moustapha Kassem</div><div>18. Healthy blood – Syed Rizvi</div><div>19. Molecular biomarkers of health – Jan Nehlin</div><div>20. Healthy genome – Robi Tacutu&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Functional aspects</div><div>21. Healthy sleep – Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi & Julien Coelho</div><div>22. Healthy sexuality – Andreas De Block</div><div>23. Healthy mind – Robert Zachariae</div><div>24. Healthy psyche – Dominic Murphy and Caitrin Donovan&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Ecological aspects</div><div>25. Healthy organism – Anders Olsen</div><div>26. Health in non-human animals/organisms – Henrik Lerner</div><div>27. Environmental perspective on health – Ed Calabrese</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;Section 3: Health in practice</div><div>28. Healthspan versus lifespan – Eric Le Bourg</div><div>29. Health and immortality – Ilia Stambler</div><div>30. Health versus frailty – Arnold Mitnitski</div>31. Health in clinical practice – Marios Kyriazis<div>32. Health and pro-longevity interventions – Alex Vaiserman</div><div>33. Regulatory understanding of health – Ed Calabrese</div><div>34. Health in AI-driven healthcare – J.C Bjerring and Jacob Busch&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Section 4: Bringing health back together</div><div>35. Reflections/Conversations on integrated explanations of health with short response to question:</div><div>Can there be an integrated science of health? (to be compiled by the editors based on the response of all authors).</div>

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