Disease selection : the way disease changed the world / / Roger Webber

• Autore: Webber Roger
• Pubblicazione: Oxfordshire, England ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : CABI, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Disciplina: 614.4
• Soggetto topico: Communicable diseases - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Disease Selection: The Way Disease Changed the World; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: The Sexual Revolution; Origin of Life; Complex Life; Natural History of Disease; Two Sexes; 2: Out of Africa; Human Origins; The First Diseases; Genetic Diversity; Disease Selection and Race; 3: Host/Parasite Interaction; Effect of the Parasite; Malaria as a Complex Disease; Amphibiosis; Host Response; Human Endogenous Retroviruses; Vaccination; A Balance between Nature and Disease; 4: Using a Vector; Anopheline Mosquitoes; Culicine Mosquitoes ; Filariasis and Its ControlThe Tsetse Fly and Sleeping Sickness; Plague and the Flea; Typhus and Its Vectors; Ticks; Vectors and Disease Selection; 5: The Great Plagues; The Black Death; Smallpox; Changing History; 6: Missionaries of Death; Samoa; Fiji; Nauru; Africa; The Value of Immunity; 7: The Slave Trade in Parasites; Hookworm Disease; Schistosomiasis; Filariasis in the New World; The Jigger; Other Movements of Slaves; 8: Eden's Garden of South America; The Peopling of America; Introduction of Old World Diseases; Malaria in South America; Yellow Fever; Chagas' Disease; 9: A Glass of Water ; CholeraTyphoid; Prevention; 10: The Great War; 11: Man's Best Friend?; Rabies; Hydatid Disease; Toxocariasis; Toxoplasmosis; Beef and Pork Tapeworms; Anthrax; Brucellosis; Reducing the Risk; 12: The Animal Connection; Animal Origins; HIV Infection; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease; Bats; Cross-species Transmission; 13: Not Clean; Neonatal Tetanus; Trachoma; Yaws and Syphilis; Handwashing; Education; 14: Too Clean; Poliomyelitis; Allergic Conditions; Immune Stimulation; 15: The Food We Eat; Dietary Fibre; Balanced Diet; Infant Feeds and Breast Milk; Cow's Milk ; Fish OilAntioxidants; Mediterranean Diet; Obesity Promotion; Food Poisoning; Campylobacter; Salmonella and food contamination; 16: Cancer; Cancer Incidence; Cancer Prevention; 17: Climate Change and Population Movements; Effects on Diseases; Urbanization; Population Movements; 18: Disappeared and Emergent Diseases; European Malaria; The English Sweat; Eradication Programmes; New Diseases; 19: The Future; Obesity; Influenza; Ebola; Antimicrobial Resistance; Epilogue; 20: Conclusions; Resource Material and Suggested Further Reading; General Reading; Introduction; Chapter 1; Web resources ; Chapter 2Chapter 3; Web resources; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Web resources; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Web resources; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Web resources; Chapter 10; Web resources; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Web resources; Chapter 16; Web resources; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Web resources; Chapter 19; Web resources; Index; About the Author
• Titolo autorizzato: Disease selection
• ISBN: 1-78064-684-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910627298503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II