The modern hunt for disease-causing genes began in the early 1980s with the advent of new gene-splicing methods.
Analyzing all human life in terms of calculated payoffs and manipulations is the distinctive disease of modern economics.
As far as we can tell, in general, antidepressants don't increase the risk for any of the major modern killers (i.e. heart disease, cancer, dementia).
In fact, not just mental disorders, but all the illnesses of the modern world (e.g. heart disease, dementia, diabetes, cancer) seem to walk the same tightrope.
Nearly 800 million people lack dependable access to clean water and about 2.5 billion people lack access to modern sanitation, putting them at risk of disease.
Finally, disease has visited much of Africa like a modern plague (see our story on p. 96).
The disease, macular degeneration, has become a modern scourge of an aging population.
In contrast to the modern experience, "there was a trend toward worse disease in women, " Dr. Thompson said.
The failures of modern medicine come not in its basic approach to health and disease but in three correctable areas.
Moreover, while infectious-disease scares may be a permanent fixture in the modern world, they have not been kind to drug companies.
They displace people from modern resources, like clean water and sewage systems, that prevent infectious disease from spreading.
But Private Health is also an adaptation of the rapid advance of modern medicine, which throws off ever more and better ways to diagnose and treat disease and ultimately extend lives.
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But even in our modern era, the precise confluence of therapeutic and personal factors that causes one individual to successfully fight off disease and another to flag and fade often remains a mystery.
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