Human frontiers, environments, and disease
Subtitle: past patterns, uncertain futures
By: Tony McMichael.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
Subjects: World health; Diseases and history; Sustainable development; Climatic changes -- Health aspects; Human ecology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-401) and index.
Table of contents: title: Disease patterns in human biohistory; title: Human biology: the Pleistocene inheritance; title: Adapting to diversity: climate, food and infection; title: Infectious disease: humans and microbes coevolving; title: The Third Horseman: food, farming and famines; title: The industrial era: the Fifth Horseman?; title: Longer lives and lower birth rates; title: Modern affluence: lands of milk and honey; title: Cities, social environments and synapses; title: Global environmental change: overstepping limits; title: Health and disease: an ecological perspective; title: Footprints to the future: treading less heavily.