Humanbiologi

"How the new science of the heart is using biology, engineering, and mathematics to help prevent and cure heart disease"--

Vi er som mennesker et evolutionært mirakel. De evner og færdigheder, vi besidder, har skabt det liv på jorden, vi kender til i dag. Mennesket har udviklet sig til at skabe interpersonelle forhold til hinanden, vi har skabt samfund, store økonomiske systemer og vi har bekriget hinanden over hele kloden. Men selv mirakler kan være fejlbehæftede - og det må man sige, gør sig gældende for mennesket og den menneskelige biologi. Vores kroppe går i stykker og knogler brækker, og det uanset om man er rig eller fattig. Vi rejser rundt til alle dele af verden, koloniserer store landområder, men må se os slået af endemiske og epidemiske sygdomme, som vores skrøbelige kroppe ikke kan stå imod.Lewis Dartnell tager os med på en rejse igennem verdenshistorien med den menneskelige krop som medium. Han kommer omkring den magtfulde, europæiske fyrsteslægt, Habsburg-familien, hvis enorme magt blev stadfæstet af deres interfamiliære ægteskaber rundt omkring i de europæiske monarkier, hvilket dog også førte til slægtens undergang grundet utallige familiesygdomme som følge af indavl. Og med et nutidigt syn på sagen kommer han også omkring klimakrisen og den menneskelige biologi. Den menneskelige hjerne er nemlig hardwired til at ignorere langsigtede konsekvenser. Det har rent evolutionært givet mening for os at overvurdere umiddelbare belønninger fremfor fremtidens konsekvenser af vores valg – i en farlig og usikker verden er det en fordel at gribe belønninger med det samme, da du måske ikke får chancen igen senere, eller at fokusere på en aktuel trussel frem for noget, der ligger langt ude i fremtiden. Og netop dette er også den samme mekanisme, der gør, at vi står over for en enorm fedmeepidemi over hele kloden.

Explore the uncharted territories of human potential in Beyond BoundariesExplore the endless options of what people can do with "Beyond Boundaries." This book makes you think and is very inspiring. The author, [Author Name], wants you to go on a journey that will change your life and help you grow professionally and personally.Find out how powerful it is to be strong, flexible, and self-aware as you push your limits and get rid of ideas that hold you back. Based on the newest research in neuroscience, learn how to use your brain's amazing power and look into how your genes affect your unique potential. "Beyond Boundaries" looks at the psychological roots that support your path to greatness. It will help you reach your full creative potential and encourage innovation in every part of your life.You'll learn a lot about how to find a deep sense of purpose and satisfaction by focusing on spiritual practices, mindfulness, and meditation. Use the power of technology to improve yourself while keeping ethics in mind in a world that is always linked.This book will help you push the limits of your physical ability by focusing on how nutrition, exercise, and recovery can improve your health. You will look at case studies of amazing achievements that show how powerful the human mind and body are."Beyond Boundaries" shows you how to encourage new ideas, grow your creativity, and make friends who can help you in your personal and business life. Dive into the endless opportunities that lie ahead of you and start an amazing journey of self-discovery and making a difference in the world.Come join the group of people who want to reach their full potential and see what's really possible. Your ticket to uncharted areas of human potential is "Beyond Boundaries." There, the only limits you put on yourself are the ones you set for yourself. Don't miss this chance to go on this life-changing adventure today!"

This highly-detailed manual provides a comprehensive overview of the early stages of human development, focusing on embryology. Written by esteemed biologist James Playfair McMurrich, this book is an essential resource for scholars and medical professionals alike.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A scientific study on muscular work, focusing on the metabolic aspects and the efficiency of the human body as a machine.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This book presents an in-depth qualitative study carried out with inpatients under treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs) in seven therapeutic communities (TCs) located in three countries: Peru, Nicaragua and Czech Republic. By comparing the experiences in these different cultural contexts, the book presents a grounded theory of SUDs treatment in TCs from a cross-cultural perspective, identifying factors that influence the efficacy of SUDs treatment in TCs based on interviews carried out with inpatients.Based on rigorous qualitative research methods, this book presents not only a comparative analysis of TCs located in different cultural contexts, but also analyzes the cross-cultural nature of the therapeutic programs adopted in these communities, such as the combination of traditional Amazonian medicine based on the therapeutic use of ayahuasca with conventional psychotherapy and occupational therapy, among other approaches. Departing from the interviews carried out with inpatients, the authors present a comparative analysis of how the different TCs address important issues related to SUDs treatment, and complement this analysis with machine-generated summaries of relevant scientific papers. These summaries contain results of similar research projects conducted in other cultural contexts. Substance Use Disorders Treatment in Therapeutic Communities: A Cross-Cultural Approach presents the results of a unique comparative study with great translational potential which will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners working in TCs. This unique comparative study identifies factors affecting the efficacy of therapeutic programs and proposes a grounded theory which aims to serve as an important source of information for therapists and other professionals working with SUDs treatment and for the replication of applied therapeutic methods in other TCs.

The second and expanded edition of this award-winning book provides the most up-to-date and important efforts for improving the quality of life in communities around the world. It focuses on community improvements in relation to the interdisciplinary field of clinical sociology. The first part of the book includes updated analyses of important concepts and tools for community intervention. It discusses the importance of centrally involving community members in all phases of community development activities. Part II includes several completely new chapters and focuses on projects in a number of countries -- the United States, Brazil, South Africa, Canada, the Philippines and France. It covers topics such as establishing human rights cities; involving and empowering local communities; research in communities; the healthy cities movement; and climate change. This edition includes several new gender-focused chapters, addressing local level initiatives based on the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination and Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), women in prison, and gender factors in climate risk. The appendices include profiles of outstanding practitioners and scholar-practitioners over the last 100 years. This edition includes contributions from well-known scholars and practitioners in clinical sociology and is of interest to sociologists, social policy makers, social workers, and sustainability researchers.   The first edition of this book received the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the Clinical Sociology Division of the International Sociological Association.

Most people have some dissatisfaction or concern about body weight, fatness, or obesity, either personally or professionally. This book shows how the popular understanding of obesity is often at odds with scientific understandings, and how misunderstandings about people with obesity can further contribute to the problem. It describes, in an approachable way, interconnected debates about obesity in public policy, medicine and public health, and how media and social media engage people in everyday life in those debates. In chapters considering body fat and fatness, genetics, metabolism, food and eating, inequality, blame and stigma, and physical activity, this book brings separate domains of obesity research into the field of complexity. By doing so, it aids navigation through the minefield of misunderstandings about body weight, fatness, and obesity that exist today, after decades of mostly failed policies and interventions.

This book successfully explores cellular and molecular mechanisms of chronic pain based on recent basic neurobiological investigations. By focusing on major breakthroughs in basic neurosciences, it is believed to contain the promise for future new pain drug discovery.Instead of repeating extensive reviews of basic animal and clinical observations, the book provides a novel neuronal model that is believed to be the key target for treating chronic pain. In addition, it reviews and validates animal models developed for studying basic mechanisms of pain and chronic pain, and the current medicine used to treat chronic pain as well as alternative pain treatment. The final few chapters also cover how pain may interfere with other high brain functions, such as fear, anxiety, sleep, memory, etc.

A New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR'The best book I've ever read about motherhood' Jude Rogers, Observer'I kept scribbling in the margins: 'We need to know this stuff!'' Joanna Pocock, SpectatorA radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and bodyDuring pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis.There is no other time in a human's life course that entails such dramatic change-other than adolescence. And yet this life-altering transition has been sorely neglected by science, medicine and philosophy. Its seismic effects go largely unrepresented across literature and the arts. Speaking about motherhood as anything other than a pastel-hued dream remains, for the most part, taboo.In this ground-breaking, deeply personal investigation, acclaimed journalist and author Lucy Jones brings to light the emerging concept of 'matrescence'. Drawing on new research across various fields - neuroscience and evolutionary biology; psychoanalysis and existential therapy; sociology, economics and ecology - Jones shows how the changes in the maternal mind, brain and body are far more profound, wild and enduring than we have been led to believe. She reveals the dangerous consequences of our neglect of the maternal experience and interrogates the patriarchal and capitalist systems that have created the untenable situation mothers face today.Here is an urgent examination of the modern institution of motherhood, which seeks to unshackle all parents from oppressive social norms. As it deepens our understanding of matrescence, it raises vital questions about motherhood and femininity; interdependence and individual identity; as well as about our relationships with each other and the living world.

Our Fingerprints Spiral Like Galaxies is a quite literal "handbook," a single-focus anatomy guide made up of a series of freestanding micro-essays depicting the human hand as a cosmic map, an insignia of personal will, and a crossroads of bodily intake and output.In this manual of manual actions, our hand is a poly-sensual organ that can utter, listen, sniff, and savor as well as grasp, carry, manipulate, and gesture. These pages treat the hand as a five-fingered pentagram and a microcosm of Selfhood, an engine whose movements form a vast repertoire of oracles, dances, and pantomimes. Aristotle saw our hand as the "instrument of instruments," and Kant regarded it as the foremost "window on the mind." Anaxagoras viewed this body part as the most supreme proof of our near-divinity and an epicenter of mortal significance. This book gladly partakes of such perspectives and envisions our hand's array of bones, muscles, and ligaments as a primal emblem radiating its meaning in every direction.

In this acclaimed bestseller, an explorer and Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery'With the style of a poet and imagination of a philosopher, Ludovic Slimak probes the minds of Neanderthals. . . This fun and provocative book is a reminder that we still have a lot to learn about biological intelligence' Steve BrusatteWhat if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were?For over a century we saw them as inferior to Homo Sapiens. Today, Neanderthals are seen as fully human, different from us only because of their distant cultural traditions. But does the truth lie somewhere else entirely?Neanderthal hunter and paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak understands these enigmatic creatures like no one else after studying them for three decades. Taking us on a fascinating archaeological investigation from the Arctic Circle to the deep Mediterranean forests, he traces their steps, deciphering their stories through every single detail they left behind.In this stunning, bold book, he argues that Neanderthals should be understood on their own terms. They had their own history, their own rituals, their own customs. Their own intelligence. A remarkable intelligence, for sure, but an intelligence that may have been very different from ours - although it can still teach us much about ourselves.A thought-provoking detective story, written with wit and verve, The Naked Neanderthal shifts our understanding of deep history - and in the process reveals just how much we have yet to learn.