Diseases and human evolution

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnes, Ethne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2005]
Physical Description:
xii, 484 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Epidemiology.
Medical anthropology.
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.

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