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Our debt to disease : cultural and genetic consequences of epidemic infectious diseases / David P. Clark.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, David P.
- Series:
- FTPress Delivers elements.
- FTPress Delivers elements
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diseases and history.
- Epidemics.
- Civilization.
- Human evolution.
- Human genetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([11] p.).
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Place of Publication:
- Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FTPress Delivers, c2010.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This Element is an excerpt from Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today (9780137019960) by David P. Clark. Available in print and digital formats. ¿ Is there a “good” side to epidemics? It all depends on how you look at it… ¿ The way epidemics have intervened in history shows that disease is not uniformly negative. An epidemic’s long-term outcome may be quite complex. Whether we regard any particular outcome as “good” or “bad” depends partly on whose side we are on and partly on the relative weight we give to short-term versus long-term effects.
- Notes:
- Excerpted from Germs, genes & civilization by David P. Clark. Cf. resource description page (viewed April 27, 2010).
- ISBN:
- 9786612562877
- 9781282562875
- 1282562878
- OCLC:
- 613614570
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