Human frontiers, environments, and disease : past patterns, uncertain futures /

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This compelling account charts the relentless trajectory of humankind across time and geography, and its changing survival patterns, from several million years ago when our ancient ancestors roamed the African Savannah to today's populous, industrialised, globalising world.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McMichael, A. J. (Anthony J.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Temas:
World health.
Diseases and history.
Sustainable development.
Climatic changes > Health aspects.
Human ecology.
Social medicine.
Ecology.
Global Health
Social Medicine
Ecology
Santé mondiale.
Maladies et histoire.
Développement durable.
Climat > Changements > Aspect sanitaire.
Écologie humaine.
Médecine sociale.
Écologie.
sustainable development.
human ecology.
ecology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
Social medicine
Climatic changes > Health aspects
Diseases and history
Human ecology
Sustainable development
World health
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Disease patterns in human biohistory
  • Human biology: the Pleistocene inheritance
  • Adapting to diversity: climate, food and infection
  • Infectious disease: humans and microbes coevolving
  • The Third Horseman: food, farming and famines
  • The industrial era: the Fifth Horseman?
  • Longer lives and lower birth rates
  • Modern affluence: lands of milk and honey
  • Cities, social environments and synapses
  • Global environmental change: overstepping limits
  • Health and disease: an ecological perspective
  • Footprints to the future: treading less heavily.

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