The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia
Deposing the Spirits
Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africa's most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology of the disease through the science of landscape change. All malaria is local. Instead of examining the disease at global or continental scale, McCann investigates malaria's adaptation and persistence in a single region, Ethiopia, over time and at several contrasting sites.Malaria has evolved along with humankind and has adapted to even modern-day technological efforts to eradicate it or to control its movement.…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8214-4513-6
- EAN: 9780821445136
- Produktnummer: 20435599
- Verlag: Ohio University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
James C. McCann is a professor of history and chair of the Department of Archaeology at Boston University. He is winner of a John S. Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2014 Distinguished Scholar of the American Society of Environmental History.
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