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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Evolutionary medicine"”.
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"Send only your serious cases" : delivering flu to Toronto: an anthropological analysis of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
… Grounded in the anthropological frameworks of evolutionary medicine, political economy and syndemics, this dissertation is designed to present a qualitative historical account of the pandemic in one of Canada's largest cities. This piece adds to the growing body of literature aimed at …
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Exploring the Short-Sleep Obesity Association in Young Children
… and qualitative methods, and applying an evolutionary medicine perspective. Participants were 109 3-year-old children and their parents in Stockton-on-Tees. Children’s sleep (validated by actigraphy), food intake and activity over 4 days/5 nights were assessed by parental diary report, and …
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Bringing to bear: A biosocial examination of the developmental origins of the obstetric dilemma.
… to scholarly work that is redefining the evolutionary origins of childbirth difficulty, proposing more nuanced origins than the original OD hypothesis. The implications of this thesis are that obstetrically relevant pelvic dimensions have a specific growth trajectory that may be impacted …
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Bridging the gap between populations and individuals in the philosophy of medicine
… populations and individuals in the philosophy of medicine. There is a long-standing tension in the fact that randomised, controlled trials in clinical populations count among the best evidence in medicine, while the goal of medical practice is to help individual patients who may differ from …