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Six modern plagues and how we are causing them / Mark Jerome Walters.
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155963992X (alk. paper)
1559637145
Name
Walters, Mark Jerome
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Six modern plagues and how we are causing them / Mark Jerome Walters.
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Washington : Island Press, c2003.
Description
212 p. ; 21 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The Dark Side of Progress: Mad Cow Disease -- 2. A Chimp Called Amandine: HIV/AIDS -- 3. The Travels of Antibiotic Resistance: Salmonella DT104 -- 4. Of Old Growth and Arthritis: Lyme Disease -- 5. A Spring to Die For: Hantavirus -- 6. A Virus from the Nile -- Epilogue: SARS and Beyond.
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"In Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, Mark Jerome Walters tells the human stories behind these diseases and brilliantly shows the connections between new epidemics and human changes to the natural environment. "So closely are new epidemics linked to ecological change," Walters argues, "they might rightfully be called ecodemics." Global climate change, deforestation, heavily industrialized agriculture, and wildlife decimation, not to mention global travel and commerce, he shows, have all contributed to the emergence and spread of these diseases. We are not simply victims of new illnesses; we are helping to cause or exacerbate them through changes we've made to the natural world."--BOOK JACKET.
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Epidemiology
Environmental health
Human ecology
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Environmental health
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Epidemiology
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Human ecology
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Environmental engineering
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Health
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Health risk assessment
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Housing and health
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Human ecology
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Industrial hygiene
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Public health
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Sanitation
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Diseases
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Epidemics
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Public health
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Ecology
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Environmental health
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Hazardous geographic environments
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Human geography
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Children and the environment.
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