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Author:   Rodrick Wallace ,  Deborah Wallace
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2nd ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   6.623kg
ISBN:  

9783319480770

ISBN 10:   3319480774
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   21 December 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction.- 1. Toward new tools.- 2. Models of development.- 3. Groupoid symmetries.- 4. Epigenetic catalysis.- 5. Developmental disorders.- 6. An interim perspective.- 7. The obesity pandemic in the US.- 8. Coronary heart disease in the US. - 9. Cancer: a developmental perspective.- 10. Autoimmune disorders.- 11. Demoralization and obesity in Upper Manhattan.- 12. Death at an early age: AIDS and related mortality in New York City.- 13. Mental Disorders I: Western atomism and its culture-bound syndromes.- 14. Mental Disorders II: Psychopathology and sleep.- 15. Diabetes and Thyroid Cancer in Manhattan's Chinatown.- 16. Right-To-Work Laws and Alzheimer's Disease.- 17. Stress as an Environmental Exposure.- 18. Final Thoughts.- 19. Mathematical Appendix.

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Rodrick Wallace PhD is a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, received his B.S. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University.. A recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has published many papers adapting quantitative methods from population, community and ecosystem ecology to the theoretical and empirical analysis of problems of public health and public order. Recently he has attempted to adapt methods from information theory to the study of evolutionary process in medical sociology, biology and economics.

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