The ten-thousand year fever : rethinking human and wild primate malarias / / Loretta A Cormier
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| Autore: |
Cormier Loretta A.
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| Titolo: |
The ten-thousand year fever : rethinking human and wild primate malarias / / Loretta A Cormier
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 614.5/32 |
| Soggetto topico: | Malaria |
| Medical parasitology | |
| Primates - Diseases | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | First published 2011 by Left Coast Press, Inc. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Machine generated contents note: Preface 1. Malaria as a Primate Disorder 2. Co-Evolution: Parasites, Vectors, and Hosts 3. Falciparum-Type: The Chimpanzee Malaria 4. Vivax-Type: The Macaque Malaria 5. Migration: Malaria in the New World 6. Rhesus Factor: Experimental Studies in Wild Primates 7. Ethics: Human Experimentation 8. Future: The Primate Malaria Landscape Appendix I. Plasmodia Parasites and their Natural Primate Hosts Appendix II. Experimentally-Induced Plasmodium Cross-Infections into Novel Hosts Appendix III. Naturally-Acquired Cross-Infections with Novel Malaria Parasites Appendix IV. Primate Species and All Infections with Plasmodium Parasites References Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "Malaria is one of the oldest recorded diseases in human history, and its 10,000-year relationship to primates can teach us why it will be one of the most serious threats to humanity in the 21st century. In this pathbreaking book Loretta Cormier integrates a wide range of data from molecular biology, ethnoprimatology, epidemiology, ecology, anthropology, and other fields to reveal the intimate relationships between culture and environment that shape the trajectory of a parasite. She argues against the entrenched distinction between human and non-human malarias, using ethnoprimatology to develop a new understanding of cross-species exchange. She also shows how current human-environment interactions, including deforestation and development, create the potential for new forms of malaria to threaten human populations. This book is a model of interdisciplinary integration that will be essential reading in fields from anthropology and biology to public health"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The ten-thousand year fever |
| ISBN: | 1-315-41708-1 |
| 1-315-41709-X | |
| 1-61132-797-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457467203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New frontiers in historical ecology ; ; v. 2.