Disease selection : the way disease changed the world /

This book contains 20 chapters covering a range of infectious diseases, as well as a few non-infectious diseases such as cancer, and how they greatly affected the course of human history. It explores host-pathogen relationship, transmission routes, evolution, and global spread of infectious diseases...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Webber, Roger (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Boston, MA, USA : CABI, [2015]
Temas:
Communicable diseases > History.
Communicable Diseases > history
Host-Pathogen Interactions
Maladies infectieuses > Histoire.
Bacterial diseases.
Climate.
Climate change.
Disease distribution.
Disease transmission.
Disease vectors.
Epidemiology.
Evolution.
Foodborne diseases.
Foods.
Geographical distribution.
Helminthoses.
Helminths.
History.
Host parasite relationships.
Hosts.
Human diseases.
Hygiene.
Infections.
Infectious diseases.
Neoplasms.
Parasites.
Parasitoses.
Pathogens.
Pets.
Protozoal infections.
Public health.
Spread.
Vector-borne diseases.
Viral diseases.
World.
Zoonoses.
Communicable diseases
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The sexual revolution
  • Out of Africa
  • Host/parasite interaction
  • Using a vector
  • The great plagues
  • Missionaries of death
  • The slave trade in parasites
  • Eden's garden of South America
  • A glass of water
  • The great war
  • Man's best friend?
  • The animal connection
  • Not clean
  • Too clean
  • The food we eat
  • Cancer
  • Climate change and population movements
  • Disappeared and emergent diseases
  • The future.

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