Diseases and human evolution / / Ethne Barnes

• Autore: Barnes Ethne
• Pubblicazione: Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (498 p.)
• Disciplina: 614.4
• Soggetto topico: Epidemiology; Medical anthropology
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-467) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Barnes, a paleopathologist, offers general overviews of specific diseases (West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, etc.) and their carriers.
• Titolo autorizzato: Diseases and human evolution
• ISBN: 9781283635202; 1283635208; 9780826330673; 0826330673
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910973060603321
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