The Ten-Thousand Year Fever - Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malarias (Paperback, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Left Coast Press Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New Frontiers in Historical Ecology
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Loretta A. Cormier
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	241
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-59874-483-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere
LSN:	1-59874-483-6
Barcode:	9781598744835

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