The Ten-Thousand Year Fever
Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malarias
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. S…
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- ISBN: 978-1-315-41707-3
- EAN: 9781315417073
- Produktnummer: 20169791
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 241 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'490 KB
- Abbildungen: Illustrations
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