The ten-thousand year fever
Subtitle: rethinking human and wild primate malarias
By: Loretta A Cormier
Series: New frontiers in historical ecology
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781598744828; 9781598744835
Subjects: Diseases; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical; MEDICAL / Diseases; Medical parasitology; Primates; MEDICAL / Parasitology; Malaria
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface 1. Malaria as a Primate Disorder 2. Co-Evolution: Parasites, Vectors, and Hosts 3. Falciparum-Type: The Chimpanzee Malaria 4. Vivax-Type: The Macaque Malaria 5. Migration: Malaria in the New World 6. Rhesus Factor: Experimental Studies in Wild Primates 7. Ethics: Human Experimentation 8. Future: The Primate Malaria Landscape Appendix I. Plasmodia Parasites and their Natural Primate Hosts Appendix II. Experimentally-Induced Plasmodium Cross-Infections into Novel Hosts Appendix III. Naturally-Acquired Cross-Infections with Novel Malaria Parasites Appendix IV. Primate Species and All Infections with Plasmodium Parasites References Index.