The Ten-Thousand Year Fever: Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malarias - Brossura

Cormier, Loretta A

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ISBN 10: 1598744836 ISBN 13: 9781598744835

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Riassunto

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. She also shows how current human-environment interactions, including deforestation and development, create the potential for new forms of malaria to threaten human populations. This book is a model of interdisciplinary integration that will be essential reading in fields from anthropology and biology to public health.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Loretta A. Cormier is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is author of Kinship with Monkeys, the Guajá Foragers of Eastern Brazil (Columbia University Press) and numerous articles in historical ecology and ethnoprimatology (human-nonhuman primate interactions).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1598744836
• ISBN 13: 9781598744835
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 242