学术英语 医学,Academic English for Medicine,Unit 3,Prevention and Treatment of Diseases Despite the progress in medicine, many diseases are still untreatable and incurable. It has been generally agreed that prevention is more cost-effective than the treatment of diseases. Here come some fundamental questions: Which play a more important role in causing human diseases, genes or environmental factors? Why do people with good interpersonal relationships live healthier and longer? What are the major steps in developing a new drug? In this unit, we will probably find the answers to these questions.,Unit 3 Prevention and Treatment of Diseases,Unit Contents,Lead-in,Text A,Text B,Text C,Listening,Speaking,Writing,Get reading for Unit 9,Lead-in,Issues to be covered Task,Unit 3 Prevention and Treatment of Diseases,Lead-in,Issues to be covered,The common and special means of treatment and prevention of diseases The different roles of genes and environment in causing diseases The relationship between interpersonal relationship and health The major steps in designing and developing new drugs,Unit 3 Prevention and Treatment of Diseases,Lead-in,Your experience when you fell ill last time,Time Visits to doctor Diagnosis Treatment,Unit 3 Prevention and Treatment of Diseases,Lead-in,Task: Work in pairs and discuss the causes and treatments you know of the following conditions.,Unit 3 Prevention and Treatment of Diseases,Lead-in,Task: Work in pairs and discuss the causes and treatments you know of the following conditions.,Unit 3 Prevention and Treatment of Diseases,Text A,Critical reading and thinking Topics for presentation Knowledge of the subject matter Useful expressions Suggested answers,Unit 3 Prevention and Treatment of Diseases,Text A Critical reading and thinking,Topics for presentation,1. How was Terrys life before she was diagnosed with (Pre. 1),loved practicing Tae Kwon Do loved the surge of adrenaline that came with the controlled combat of tournaments competed nationally, even winning a bronze medal in the trials for the Pan American Games attended medical school, practiced as an internal medicine residency, became an academic general internist married and got a son and a daughter,Unit 3 Prevention and Treatment of Diseases,Text A Critical reading and thinking,Topics for presentation,2. How much do you know about MS and autoimmune disease? (Pre. 2),Symptoms as mentioned by the author loss of stamina and strength problems with balance bouts of horrific facial pain dips in visual acuity,Unit 3 Prevention and Treatment of Diseases,Text A Critical reading and thinking,Topics for presentation,2. How much do you know about MS and autoimmune disease? (Pre. 2),Cause as mentioned by the author the assault of immune cells on the brain, with possible origin in genetic make-up or/and combination of environmental factors Treatment as mentioned by the author interferon and copolymer-1,Unit 3 Prevention and Treatment of Diseases,Text A Critical reading and thinking,Topics for presentation,3. What did Terry do before she self-experimented? (Pre. 3),Picking up basic science such as cellular physiology, biochemistry and neurophysiology Reading articles about new MS drugs in animal models and neurodegeneration of all typesdementia, Parkinsons disease, Huntingtons, and Lou Gehrigs disease,Unit 3 Prevention and Treatment of Diseases,Text A Critical reading and thinking,Topics for presentation,4. What approaches did Terry mainly use to deal with neurodegeneration? (Pre. 4),self-experimentation with various nutrients to slow neurodegeneration based on literature reports on animal models self-experimentation with neuromuscular electrical stimulation still based on literature online search to identify the sources of micronutrients reduction of food allergy and toxic load,Unit 3 Prevention and Treatment of Diseases,Text A Critical reading and thinking,Topics for presentation,5. One example to illustrate the correlation between toxic load and disease (Pre. 5),With 70% to 90% of the risk for diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and autoimmunity being due to environmental factors other than genetics, we can provide the real solution to many health problems and the health care crisis by changing our environment, for example, optimizing our nutrition and reducing our toxic load.,Unit 3 Prevention and Treatment of Diseases,Text A Critical reading and thinking,Knowledge of the subject matter,the surge of adrenaline (P55) medical school (P55) an internal medicine residency (P55) an academic general internist (P55) to develop a chronic disease (P55) I had only two options: accommodation and acceptance of deepening disability despite optimal treatment, or increased involvement in my own health care. (P55),Unit 3 Prevention and Treatment of Diseases,Text A Critical reading and thinking,Knowledge of the subject matter,My doctor said that genetics accounted for only 10 to 30% of the risk of MS; the rest (?) was due to some