The Ten-Thousand Year Fever : Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malarias
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
New Frontiers in Historical Ecology
ISBN-10
1598744836
ISBN-13
9781598744835
Publisher
Left Coast Press Inc
Imprint
Left Coast Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 15th, 2011
Print length
241 Pages
Weight
418 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 22.90 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
AnthropologyPublic health & preventive medicineEcological science, the Biosphere
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Cormier integrates a wide range of data from molecular biology, ethnoprimatology, epidemiology, ecology, and other fields to show how culture and environment have shaped the history of malaria and will make it one of the most serious threats to humanity in the 21st century.
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.
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