In this Book
- Diseases and Human Evolution
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of New Mexico Press
summary
Writing in a clear, lively style, Barnes offers general overviews of every variety of disease and their carriers, from insects and worms through rodent vectors to household pets and farm animals. She devotes whole chapters to major infectious diseases such as leprosy, syphilis, smallpox, and influenza. Other chapters concentrate on categories of diseases ("gut bugs," for example, including cholera, typhus, and salmonella). The final chapters cover diseases that have made headlines in recent years, among them mad cow disease, West Nile virus, and Lyme disease.
Table of Contents
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- 1: Introduction
- pp. 1-8
- 3: Early Humans and Their Diseases
- pp. 27-44
- 4: The Seeds of Change
- pp. 45-65
- 8: Domesticated Animals and Disease
- pp. 137-155
- 9: Cows, Mycobacteria, and Tuberculosis
- pp. 157-172
- 10: The Moral Disease: Leprosy
- pp. 173-183
- 11: The Coming of Civilization
- pp. 185-200
- 12: Syphilis: The Great Change Artist
- pp. 201-220
- 13: Memories of Smallpox
- pp. 221-235
- 14: Pestilence, Plague, and Rats
- pp. 237-249
- 19: Food for Thought: The Mystery Diseases
- pp. 313-335
- 20: The Globalization of Influenza
- pp. 337-353
- 21: Diseases of Modern Civilization
- pp. 355-386
- 22: The New Viral Wars and Sleeping Dragons
- pp. 387-411
- 23: Back to the Future
- pp. 413-428
- Works Cited
- pp. 429-467
Additional Information
ISBN
9780826330673
Related ISBN(s)
9780826330666
MARC Record
OCLC
681244318
Pages
496
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No