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Autore |
Barnes Ethne |
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Titolo |
Diseases and human evolution / / Ethne Barnes |
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Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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9781283635202 |
1283635208 |
9780826330673 |
0826330673 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (498 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Epidemiology |
Medical anthropology |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-467) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1: Introduction; 2: The War between Microbes and Men; 3: Early Humans and Their Diseases; 4: The Seeds of Change; 5: Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Gene Wars; 6: Invitation to a Minute Worm: The Schistosomes; 7: Braving New Worlds: Invisible Enemies of Settlers; 8: Domesticated Animals and Disease; 9: Cows, Mycobacteria, and Tuberculosis; 10: The Moral Disease: Leprosy; 11: The Coming of Civilization; 12: Syphilis: The Great Change Artist; 13: Memories of Smallpox; 14: Pestilence, Plague, and Rats |
15: Of Lice and Men: Plus Ticks, Mites, and Chiggers16: Marching to a New World Order: European Expansion and the Industrial Revolution; 17: Easy Route to Fame and Gripe: Cholera, the Salmonella Gang, and Other Prominent Gut Bugs; 18: Transoceanic Hitchhikers: Yellow Fever and Its Dengue Cousin; 19: Food for Thought: The Mystery Diseases; 20: The Globalization of Influenza; 21: Diseases of Modern Civilization; 22: The New Viral Wars and Sleeping Dragons; 23: Back to the Future; Works Cited; Index; Back Cover |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Barnes, a paleopathologist, offers general overviews of specific diseases (West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, etc.) and their carriers. |
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