Diseases and human evolution / Ethne Barnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnes, Ethne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epidemiology.

Medical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (498 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Barnes, a paleopathologist, offers general overviews of specific diseases (West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, etc.) and their carriers.

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1: Introduction; 2: The War between Microbes and Men; 3: Early Humans and Their Diseases; 4: The Seeds of Change; 5: Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Gene Wars; 6: Invitation to a Minute Worm: The Schistosomes; 7: Braving New Worlds: Invisible Enemies of Settlers; 8: Domesticated Animals and Disease; 9: Cows, Mycobacteria, and Tuberculosis; 10: The Moral Disease: Leprosy; 11: The Coming of Civilization; 12: Syphilis: The Great Change Artist; 13: Memories of Smallpox; 14: Pestilence, Plague, and Rats

15: Of Lice and Men: Plus Ticks, Mites, and Chiggers16: Marching to a New World Order: European Expansion and the Industrial Revolution; 17: Easy Route to Fame and Gripe: Cholera, the Salmonella Gang, and Other Prominent Gut Bugs; 18: Transoceanic Hitchhikers: Yellow Fever and Its Dengue Cousin; 19: Food for Thought: The Mystery Diseases; 20: The Globalization of Influenza; 21: Diseases of Modern Civilization; 22: The New Viral Wars and Sleeping Dragons; 23: Back to the Future; Works Cited; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-467) and index.

ISBN:

9781283635202

1283635208

9780826330673

0826330673

OCLC:

817818709