We have built a world that no longer fits our bodies. Our genes - selected through our evolution - and the many processes by which our development is tuned within the womb, limit our capacity to adapt to the modern urban lifestyle. There is a mismatch. We are seeing the impact of this mismatch in the explosion of diabetes, heart disease and obesity. But it also has consequences...(展开全部)

An “important and deeply researched” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of allergies, from their first medical description in 1819 to the cutting-edge science that is illuminating the changes in our environment and lifestyles that are making so many of us sick Hay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Either you have an allergy or you know someone who does. Billions of people wor...(展开全部)

Something gleeful and malevolent is moving in Lia’s body, learning her life from the inside out. A shape-shifter. A disaster tourist. It’s travelling down the banks of her canals. It’s spreading. When a sudden diagnosis upends Lia’s world, the boundaries between her past and her present begin to collapse. Deeply buried secrets stir awake. As the voice prowling in Lia takes hold...(展开全部)

Something gleeful and malevolent is moving in Lia’s body, learning her life from the inside out. A shape-shifter. A disaster tourist. It’s travelling down the banks of her canals. It’s spreading. When a sudden diagnosis upends Lia’s world, the boundaries between her past and her present begin to collapse. Deeply buried secrets stir awake. As the voice prowling in Lia takes hold...(展开全部)

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a...(展开全部)

埃默伦·迈耶（Emeran A. Mayer） 医学博士，过去40年里一直致力于研究大脑-身体相互联系的研究，特别强调大脑-肠道联系。他被认为是脑-肠微生物群相互作用和慢性内脏痛领域的先驱和世界领导者。 他是奥本海默压力与复原力神经生物学中心的执行主任，也是加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校消化疾病研究中心的共同主任。他的研究在过去25年中一直得到美国国立卫生研究院的支持。 他的研究成果曾被美国国家公共广播电台（NPR）、美国公共电视网（PBS）、纪录片《寻找平衡》（In Search of Balance）等广泛报道。他的作品经常发表于《大西洋月刊》《科学人》《纽约时报》《卫报》等出版物中。 译者：冯任南 营养与食品卫生学博士，内分泌与代谢疾病博士后，哈尔滨医科大学公共卫生学院，营养与食品卫生学教研室，副教授，硕士生导师。主要从事营养流行病学、智能营养、营养...(展开全部)

As industrial and scientific developments in early-twentieth-century Japan transformed the meaning of "objective observation," modern writers and poets struggled to capture what they had come to see as an evolving network of invisible relations joining people to the larger material universe. For these artists, literary modernism was a crisis of perception before it was a crisis...(展开全部)

海伦·拜纳姆（Helen Bynum）与威廉姆·拜纳姆（William Bynum）对植物与园艺有着毕生的兴趣，并在萨福克建造了一座两英亩的花园。海伦·拜纳姆曾在伦敦大学学院以及惠康研究所医学历史部学习，随后在利物浦大学进行有关医学历史的讲演。现为特约讲师、编辑及作家。曾撰写Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis （2012），与威廉姆·拜纳姆共同编写Dictionary of Medical Biography（2007）以及Great Discoveries in Medicine（2011），并为Biographies of Disease 系列丛书的共同主编。威廉姆·拜纳姆毕业于耶鲁大学，获得硕士学位，于剑桥大学取得博士学位。现为皇家医师内科协会会员、伦敦大学学院医学历史荣誉教授。著作包括：Th...(展开全部)

海伦·拜纳姆（Helen Bynum）与威廉姆·拜纳姆（William Bynum）对植物与园艺有着毕生的兴趣，并在萨福克建造了一座两英亩的花园。海伦·拜纳姆曾在伦敦大学学院以及惠康研究所医学历史部学习，随后在利物浦大学进行有关医学历史的讲演。现为特约讲师、编辑及作家。曾撰写Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis （2012），与威廉姆·拜纳姆共同编写Dictionary of Medical Biography（2007）以及Great Discoveries in Medicine（2011），并为Biographies of Disease 系列丛书的共同主编。威廉姆·拜纳姆毕业于耶鲁大学，获得硕士学位，于剑桥大学取得博士学位。现为皇家医师内科协会会员、伦敦大学学院医学历史荣誉教授。著作包括：Th...(展开全部)

阿莉莎·夸特（Alissa Quart），专职作家，“经济困难报道计划”执行主编，致力于报道社会的不平等现象。文章曾多次发表在《纽约时报》《大西洋月刊》《纽约时报书评》等期刊。