Randolph M. Nesse
Physician and evolutionary medicine founder
Randolph M. Nesse is an American physician and scientist who helped found evolutionary medicine and evolutionary psychiatry. He wrote Good Reasons for Bad Feelings.
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American Born 1948 in the United States
About Randolph M. Nesse
Randolph M. Nesse, born in 1948, is an American physician, scientist and author. He is regarded as a founder of evolutionary medicine and evolutionary psychiatry. In 1994 he co-wrote Why We Get Sick with the evolutionary biologist George Williams. Earlier in his career he held professorships in psychiatry and in psychology at the University of Michigan, where he led the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program. He also helped set up one of the first anxiety disorders clinics in the world. His research examines how selection shaped defenses including pain, fever, anxiety and low mood, and why emotional disorders are widespread. He is president of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine & Public Health. His book in our catalog is Good Reasons for Bad Feelings.