Diseases and human evolution

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ISBN: 9780826330673 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0826330673 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780826330666
ISBN: 0826330665
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xii, 484 p.) : ill.
Edition: 1st paperbound print.
Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2006]

General Note:	Multi-User. Originally published 2005. OldControl:muse9780826330673 Multi-User
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-467) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- The war between microbes and men -- Early humans and their diseases -- The seeds of change -- Mosquitoes, malaria, and gene wars -- Invitation to a minute worm : the schistosomes -- Braving new worlds : invisible enemies of settlers -- Domesticated animals and disease -- Cows, mycobacteria, and tuberculosis -- The moral disease : leprosy -- The coming of civilization -- Syphilis : the great change artist -- Memories of smallpox -- Pestilence, plague, and rats -- Of lice and men : plus ticks, mites, and chiggers -- Marching to a new world order : European expansion and the Industrial Revolution -- Easy route to fame and gripe : cholera, the salmonella gang, and other prominent gut bugs -- Transoceanic hitchhikers : yellow fever and its Dengue cousin -- Food for thought : the mystery diseases -- The globalization of influenza -- Diseases of modern civilization -- The new viral wars and sleeping dragons -- Back to the future.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.