Human health in a changing environment – a practicing internist’s point of view
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From the point of view of an internist, health is an organism’s ability to perform its functions as a whole. A condition for integralness is homeostasis, understood as the ability to maintain a stable internal environment in a changing external environment. There are various ways of doing this. Human civilizations were built thanks to the fact that they adapted the external world to themselves and to a lesser degree themselves to this world. Does this not constitute a risk for the world?
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Marczewski, Krzysztof. 2006. “Human Health in a Changing Environment – a Practicing internist’s Point of View”. Diametros, no. 9 (September):161-64. https://doi.org/10.13153/diam.9.2006.260.
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Ecology and Medicine
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