Brian Fertig

Metabolism and Medicine (eBook, ePUB)

The Physics of Biological Engines (Volume 1)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the building blocks of understanding from a reasonable but not high-level technical language viewpoint, employing the perspective of a clinical physician.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000472158
• Artikelnr.: 63128796

Autorenporträt

Brian Fertig is a clinical endocrinologist, with almost 30 years of clinical experience. He is Chairman of the Department of Diabetes & Endocrinology Hackensack Meridian Health at JFK University Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey and Associate Professor of Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University School of Medicine with an expertise in metabolism. He is also Founder of the Diabetes and Osteoporosis Center.

Jack Tuszynski is a a Professor in the Department of Physics of the University of Alberta and a Fellow of the National Institute for Nanotechnology of Canada. Between 2005 and 2020 he held the position of the Allard Chair and Professor in the Department of Oncology at the University of Alberta's Cross Cancer Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface to Volume
One.................................................................................................................................xiii
Prologue........................................................................................................................................................xvii
Acknowledgments.........................................................................................................................................xxi
Personal
Statements......................................................................................................................................
xxv
1. Biological Thermodynamics: On Energy, Information, and Its Evil Twin,
Entropy...................... 1
2. Biological Engines and the Molecular Machinery of
Life........................................................................
53
3. From Quantum Biology to Quantum
Medicine......................................................................................
95
4. From Systems Biology to Systems
Medicine.......................................................................................181
5. Introduction to the Roadmap of Future Medicine: The Physiological
Fitness Landscape........... 245
6. Science Seen Through the Lessons of
Life.........................................................................
331