Plague's Progress: A Social History of Man and Disease

Arno Karlen

ISBN 10: 0575400129 / ISBN 13: 9780575400122

Edité par Phoenix, 1996

Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. N° de réf. du vendeur G0575400129I2N00

Synopsis :

A disturbing report of the current global crisis of new and resurgent diseases. This account investigates how and why diseases such as AIDS, legionnaires' disease, ebola, TB, and new forms of cholera and malaria occur. Karlen charts humanity's relationship with microbes, from the earliest hominids' probable encounters with bubonic plague, to the spread of infections through trade, conquest and empire, to the problems awaiting the human race in the near future. Using research from the fields of genetics, virology and epidemiology, he concludes that today's epidemics are part of an ancient pattern: whenever people make radical changes in their lifestyle and environment, disease flourishes.

À propos de l?auteur: SALES POINTSWinner of the 1996 Rhone-Poulenc PrizeReissued in new cover design alongside The Biography of a Germ'A riveting and scary read' Esquire'Chock-full of the most devastating accounts of plagues and graphic descriptions ofthe diseases which cause them . . . blood-curdling' Guardian'Excellent. It is he most frightening (and sobering) book I have seen since How We Die, and le

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Plague's Progress: A Social History of Man ...
Éditeur : Phoenix
Date d'édition : 1996
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : As New
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