In a startling new book a team of distinguished physicians and anthropologists tell how the diet and activity patterns of our prehistoric ancestors can be adopted today to achieve far greater physical and mental health, vitality and longevity.
First published 20 years ago to great acclaim, "The Tangled Wing" soon became useful for anyone interested in the biological roots of human behaviour and emotions. Since then however, revolutions have taken place in the biological sciences not only in genetics but molecular biology and neuroscience as well. All of these innovations have been taken ...
This Channel 4 TV tie-in book by anthropologist and psychiatrist Melvin Konner takes a journey through the childhood years - from conception and birth through adolescence - showing how children experience them, how parents and societies shape them and how science is beginning to understand them.
In Why the Reckless Survive, noted anthropologist and doctor Melvin Konner draws on more than 20 years of experience to explore some of the most intriguing questions about human nature today. He describes the latest findings in fields as disparate as moelcular genetics and sociobiology and explains human behavior in its many aspects.
We are on the verge of discovering the genetic sources for many diseases, and there are treatments so precise as to make "side effects" obsolete. And yet medicine's own health and future have never been so precarious. Noted physician Melvin Konner offers a new way of thinking about medicine, about what it can offer us, and what it needs to give us ...
This "Channel 4" TV tie-in book by anthropologist and psychiatrist Melvin Konner takes a journey through the childhood years - from conception and birth through adolescence - showing how children experience them, how parents and societies shape them and how science is beginning to understand them.
A distinct, powerful view of the world of modern medicine--enriched by anthropoligical insights, clarified by the prism of direct observation, and warmed by a passionate response to the rigors of medical apprenticeship.
As America at last begins to confront its health-care crisis, this insightful book by the acclaimed author of Becoming a Doctor offers a new look at our medical system. Drawing on case studies from around the world, Dr. Konner shows how foreign practitioners have found effective solutions to problems that still trouble their American counterparts.
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
