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Explaining Health Across the Sciences
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This edited volume aims to better understand the multifaceted phenomenon we call health.
Going beyond simple views of health as the absence of disease or as complete well-being, this book unites scientists and philosophers. The contributions clarify the links between health and adaptation, robustness, resilience, or dynamic homeostasis, and discuss how to achieve health and healthy aging through practices such as hormesis.
The book is divided into three parts and a conclusion: the first ...