Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Modern medicine and evolution
Although doctors could fix a person if injured, it would not hurt if they knew how the body evolved. I believe that if doctors knew how the human evolved it would make their treatment better. If doctors knew how the human evolved they would have a better grasp on how the body evolved. So instead of just fixing the problem, they would be able to fully understand what the problem is, why it is a problem, and so forth. Its a little of a stretch, but maybe if doctors and other medical personal under stood how exactly the body evolved they might be able to find cures for some diseases that we find incurable.
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Yes I agree if the doctors understood why women have morning sickness or a runny nose they would understand these are not bad things, these occur for a reason. Also if doctors understood the evolutionary arms race of between humans and paracites better perhaps we would not have so many antibiotic resistant bacteria waiting to kill us because doctors thought it was best for the patient to give them an antibiotic!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with. It may not seem like a direct correlation is there but I do feel it is necessary.
ReplyDeletei like how you stated "So instead of just fixing the problem, they would be able to fully understand what the problem is, why it is a problem, and so forth." because it in itself talks about the evolution of medicine through the understanding of evolution.
ReplyDeleteGood examples and explainations. I agree with you can't just treat the symptoms, you must treat the problem idea.
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