| Description |
xii, 484 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-467) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The war between microbes and men -- Early humans and their diseases -- The seeds of change -- Mosquitoes, malaria, and gene wars -- Invitation to a minute worm: the schistosomes -- Braving new worlds: invisible enemies of settlers -- Domesticated animals and disease -- Cows, mycobacteria, and tuberculosis -- The moral disease: leprosy -- The coming of civilization -- Syphilis: the great change artist -- Memories of smallpox -- Pestilence, plague, and rats -- Of lice and men: plus ticks, mites, and chiggers -- Marching to a new world order: European expansion and the Industrial Revolution -- Route to fame and gripe: cholera, the salmonella gang, and other prominent gut bugs -- Transoceanic hitchhikers: yellow fever and its Dengue cousin -- Food for thought: they mystery diseases -- The globalization of influenza -- Diseases of modern civilization -- The new viral wars and sleeping dragons -- Back to the future. |
| Subject |
Epidemiology.
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Medical anthropology.
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Epidemiology.
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Social Evolution.
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| ISBN |
0826330657 cloth alkaline paper |
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