Recent interest in new diseases, such as HIV/AIDS and Ebola, and
the resurgence of older diseases like tuberculosis has fostered
questions about the history of human infectious diseases. How did
they evolve? Where did they originate? What natural factors have
stalled the progression of diseases or made them possible? How does
a microorganism become a pathogen? How have infectious diseases
changed through time? What can we do to control their occurrence?
Ethne Barnes offers answers to these questions, using
information from history and medicine as well as from anthropology.
She focuses on changes in the patterns of human behavior through
cultural evolution and how they have affected the development of
human diseases.
Writing in a clear, lively style, Barnes offers general
overviews of every variety of disease and their carriers, from
insects and worms through rodent vectors to household pets and farm
animals. She devotes whole chapters to major infectious diseases
such as leprosy, syphilis, smallpox, and influenza. Other chapters
concentrate on categories of diseases ("gut bugs," for example,
including cholera, typhus, and salmonella). The final chapters
cover diseases that have made headlines in recent years, among them
mad cow disease, West Nile virus, and Lyme disease.
In the tradition of Berton Rouech, Hans Zinsser, and Sherwin
Nuland, Ethne Barnes answers questions you never knew you had about
the germs that have threatened us throughout human history.
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