Human Development: Biology from a Holistic Point of View

by Ventegodt, Soren

• ISBN13: 9781614704416
• ISBN10: 1614704414
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-01
• Publisher: NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC

Summary

How can we understand and explain human behavior? This is a basic question that is asked by students taking courses in psychology, medicine and health studies as well as colleagues in human services. Generally speaking, human behavior is understood in terms of three broad perspectives biology, psychology and sociology. Under the biological perspective, human behavior is seen as a product of biological structures and mechanisms. Under the psychological perspective, human behavior is seen as a result of mental processes, which may or may not have biological bases. Finally, sociologists believe that external social structures and processes determine human behavior. External environmental factors such as poverty, income inequality and alienation contribute to substance abuse and will be addressed in this intriguing book on human development.

Author Biography

From the foreword by professor Daniel TL Shek, Hong Kong: This is an excellent book that gives the readers a new perspective on the nature of consciousness and how the body is connected to the mind. Sren Ventegodt, MD, MMedSci, Eu-MSc in Complementary, Psychological and Integrated Health Sciences is the director of the Quality of Life Research Center and Clinical Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has published numerous scientific and popular articles and a number of books on holistic medicine, quality of life and quality of working life. Tyge Dahl Hermansen, MSc in biology from the University of Copenhagen and former research assistant at the Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen is currently at the Institute for Conservation Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales in Australia. Research areas are ecology, molecular biology, physiology and life quality. Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, is professor of pediatrics, child health and human development affiliated with Kentucky Children's Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States and the Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel, the medical director of the Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem and the founder and director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Research problems
Fundamental problems of biology, medicine and neuro-psychology	p. 3
Matter, life and consciousness	p. 9
Brain-mind and body-mind	p. 17
Understanding life and biological information
Living cell information system	p. 29
Can biochemistry explain morphogenesis?	p. 37
The origin of biological and cellular order	p. 47
Understanding energy and deeply structured quantum chemical fields
A spiral fractal model of fine structure of physical energy	p. 61
A theory of "deep" quantum chemistry and cell consciousness	p. 69
Understanding consciousness and human brain function
Wholeness of man, his consciousness and collective consciousness	p. 87
The origin of metamorphosis	p. 95
The structure of the cerebral cortext	p. 109
Structure and function of the human brain	p. 119
Sound, music and our understanding of the human brain	p. 143
Understanding pathogenesis and salutogenesis
Degeneration and regeneration of existence	p. 163
Implications for medical disciplines
Biochemistry and mental diseases	p. 177
The role of adult human metamorphosis in spontaneous recovery	p. 193
Jerne's anti-idiotypic network theory	p. 201
A theory for immune system regulation (The "self-nonself discrimination")	p. 207
"Energetic crisis" and "healing crisis"
The etiology of somatic diseases	p. 219
A theory for accelerated, spontaneious existential healing (salutogenesis): Human adult metamorphosis	p. 233
Understanding evolution
A theory of top-down macro-evolution and metamorphosis	p. 247
Induction of Antonovsky salutogenesis can result in spontaneous healing and recovery	p. 253
Acknowledgements
About the authors	p. 267
About the quality of life research center in Copenhagen, Denmark	p. 269
About the National Institute of Child Health and Human development in Israel	p. 275
About the book series "Health and human development"	p. 279
Index	p. 283
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