The Changing Era of Diseases

Front Cover
 The Changing Era of Diseases
 The Changing Era of Diseases
 Copyright
 Contents
 Preface
 Overview
 1. Can We Live in a Disease-Free World?
 2. Pandemic of Chronic Diseases and the Late Chronic Diseases
 3. Changing View of Disease
 4. What Next After the End of \"the Era of Diseases\"?
 5. Composition of This Book
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From the Origin of Disease to Pandemic Infectious Diseases
 1.1 The Emergence of Diseases
 Humankind undergoes physical and intellectual development
 Hunter-gatherers suffered from infectious diseases but never from communicable diseases Civilization gave birth to diseases
 Livestock breeding changes the disease pattern of humankind
 Is disease a punishment from god?
 1.2 Humankind Begins to See Disease Through the Eyes of Reason
 Reason leaps forward
 Hippocrates brings down disease from god\'s domain to the human domain
 Rising to the center of western medicine through anatomical knowledge
 Oriental medicine took a different path from western medicine
 1.3 Epidemics Changed History
 Conditions ripe for epidemics of infectious disease
 Smallpox brought the fear of epidemics The black death ends feudalism and makes powerful nations appear Influence of epidemics in the history of the west and the east
 Medicine equipped with the potential to develop into a science
 1.4 Biomedical View of Diseases as the Basis of Modern Medicine
 The industrial revolution spreads tuberculosis and cholera
 Emergence of modern medicine, which assumes the specific cause of a specific disease
 Disease-centered instead of patient-centered medicine
 Western medicine replaces traditional oriental medicine in the east
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The Age of Chronic and Late Chronic Diseases: A New View of Diseases 2.1 Humankind Enters the Age of Chronic Diseases
 The age of epidemics finally draws to an end
 Chronic disease accounts for two-thirds of all deaths in the 21st century
 Genetic mutation is not the main cause of a chronic disease
 Mankind\'s changing living environment causes chronic diseases
 Age of chronic diseases: from the disease-centered approach to the people-centered approach
 2.2 The Age of Late Chronic Diseases Is Looming
 Fast-changing aspects of disease
 Chronic diseases decrease in developed countries and increase in underdeveloped countries and among the lower classes Can the advancement of medicine end chronic diseases? Another disease emerges following chronic diseases
 2.3 Disease Occurs When Harmony and Balance of the System Are Breached
 The human body is composed of complex systems
 Approaching disease with a new view
 Avoid the fallacy of exaggeration and oversimplification
 Decoding the black box for the identification of the cause
 2.4 A Step Closer to the Closure of Disease Era
 Identifying the complex systems affecting disease
 The flow of time affects the development of a disease
 Systems medicine approach is needed