What Is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design by Peter Sterling

What Is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design

Peter Sterling

264 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative medium-paced
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An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level.Medical education centers on the venerable "no-fault" concept of homeostasis, whereby local mechanisms impose constancy by correcting errors, and the b...

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