The ten-thousand year fever rethinking human and wild primate malarias
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Walnut Creek, CA
Left Coast Press
2011
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| Schriftenreihe: | New frontiers in historical ecology
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Tag hinzufügen | Beschreibung: | "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 develop a new understanding of cross-species exchange. She also shows how current human-environment interactions, including deforestation and development, create the potential for new forms of malaria to threaten human populations. This book is a model of interdisciplinary integration that will be essential reading in fields from anthropology and biology to public health"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Beschreibung: | 241 S. |
| ISBN: | 9781598744828 978-1-59874-482-8 9781598744835 978-1-59874-483-5 |