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Coronary Artery Disease: Genes, Drugs and the Agricultural Connection O Faegerman
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Coronary Artery Disease: Genes, Drugs and the Agricultural Connection
O Faegerman
Offers information that places coronary artery disease in a historical, evolutionary, and scientific context. This book provides insight into the importance of history and how science, society and social circumstances interact. The contexts are biological, clinical, managerial, social and historical.
Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Foreword (P. A. Poole-Wilson). Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Coronary artery disease before 1920. 2. Coronary artery disease 1920-2000. 3. Coronary artery disease after 2000: Epidemiologic transitions. 4. The cholesterol controversy. 5. Food and coronary artery disease. 6. The agricultural connection. 7. Diversity, complexity and human disease. 8. Biotechnology and the marriage of university and industry. 9. Medicalization. 10. Managing medicine. Conclusions. Appendix 1: A crash course in coronary artery disease. Appendix 2: A mini-course on fats. Index.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 23, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780444513823 |
| Publishers | Elsevier Health Sciences |
| Pages | 196 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 234 × 13 mm · 458 g |
| Editor | Faergeman, Ole (Professor of Preventive Cardiology, Department of Medicine & Cardiology, Aarhus Amtssygehus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark) |
