Research traditions and evolutionary explanations in medicine

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-90

  Méthot, Pierre Olivier ^a  

^a Universite Paris 2   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptationism; Antibiotic resistance; Mismatch hypothesis; Nosocomial disease; Pleistocene epoch; Populations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HISTORY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DISEASE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 79951673603     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-010-9167-4     Document Type: Article

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