Human frontiers, environments and disease : past patterns, uncertain futures
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Tony McMichael
- ناشر : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2001
- شابک / ISBN : 9780521803113
Description
Contents List of sources for illustrations page viii Preface xi 11 Disease patterns in human biohistory 1 12 Human biology: the Pleistocene inheritance 30 13 Adapting to diversity: climate, food and infection 58 14 Infectious disease: humans and microbes coevolving 88 15 The Third Horseman: food, farming and famines 123 16 The industrial era: the Fifth Horseman? 152 17 Longer lives and lower birth rates 185 18 Modern affluence: lands of milk and honey 220 19 Cities, social environments and synapses 250 10 Global environmental change: overstepping limits 283 11 Health and disease: an ecological perspective 318 12 Footprints to the future: treading less heavily 341 Notes 366 Index 403
