In Genetic Medicine: A Logic of Disease, Barton Childs demonstrates that knowledge of the ways both genes and environment contribute to disease provides a rational basis for medical thinking. This "genetic" medicine, he explains, should help the physician use the results of laboratory tests to perceive the uniqueness of the patient as well as that of the family and the cultural conditions in which the patient's condition arose. Childs thus provides a conceptual framework within which to teach and practice a humane medicine.
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The author gives us new ways of looking at old medical disorders and offers plenty of food for thought to stimulate changes in current thinking.
(Virginia E. Kimonis Teaching and Learning in Medicine )Barton Childs's book is erudite and informative.
(Rodney Harris Human Genetics )This book is highly recommended for a wide variety of audiences in addition to physicians and medical students: ethicists, anthropologists, social workers, nurses, and other members of the health profession. Hospital administrators, insurance personnel, and lawyers could also benefit, particularly in this day of managed care. Members of curriculum committees of medical schools and public health schools could also benefit. Fortunately, some of Childs's concepts are being applied to medical teaching already, but I know of no better synthesis in one book.
(James E. Bowman Perspectives in Biology and Medicine )About the Author
Barton Childs, M.D., is professor emeritus of pediatrics and biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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I'll keep this brief. Before you buy this book use the see inside feature provided. In particular read the excerpt to assess your conceptual understanding. The editorial reviews are also helpful. Genomic medical applications are cresting the horizon of medical diagnostic and therapeutic care. This book is useful in developing a mental model for their implementation.
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The necessity to commit so much of his nation's human, material, and financial resources to the pursuit of the 1914-18 war led Briand, then premier of France, to express this opinion in a 1916 letter to the British prime minister. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
more unit steps, variant unit steps, classical inborn errors, samaritan functions, homeostatic apparatus, machine mentality, selective gradient, provocative experiences, chemical individuality, developmental matrix, genetic thinking, homeostatic interactions, inborn factors, medical aims, homeostatic devices, physiological homeostasis, genetic homeostasis, usual aging, developmental homeostasis, medical thinking, population thinking, monogenic disorders, typological thinking, remote causes, genetic medicine Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Genome Project, New York, United States, Archibald Garrod, Sewall Wright, Claude Bernard, Garrodian Medicine, Vision of Disease, African Americans, Harvard University Press, Mme Yourcenar New!
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- The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change by Richard C. Lewontin on page 133, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Molecular Biology of the Cell 3E by Bruce Alberts in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology by J.D. Watson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Physician to the Gene Pool: Genetic Lessons and Other Stories by James V. Neel on page 281, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Genetics and the Law by Aubrey Milunsky in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Reframing Disease Contextually (Philosophy and Medicine) by Mary Ann Gardell Cutter in Back Matter
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