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Human frontiers, environments and disease : past patterns, uncertain futures /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McMichael, A. J. (Anthony J.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Social Medicine.
Ecology.
Global Health.
Disease > history.
Public Health.
Table of Contents:
  • Disease patterns in human biohistory
  • Human biology : the Pleistocene inheritance
  • Adapting to diversity : climate, food and infection
  • Infectious disease : humans and microbes coevolving
  • The Third Horseman : food farming and famines
  • The industrial era : the Fifth Horseman?
  • Longer lives and lower birth rates
  • Cities, social environments and synapses
  • Global environmental change : overstepping limits
  • Health and disease : an ecological perspective
  • Footprints to the future : treading less heavily