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The Ten-Thousand Year Fever : Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malarias.
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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Walnut Creek :
Left Coast Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | New frontiers in historical ecology ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 develo. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (243 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611327977 1611327970 9781598744828 1598744828 9781598744835 1598744836 9781315417097 131541709X |