Infectious diseases
Subtitle: colonising the Pacific?
By: John Miles.
Publisher: University of Otago Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Dunedin, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Communicable diseases -- Epidemiology -- Oceania -- History.; Pacific Islanders -- Diseases.; Pacific Islanders -- Health and hygiene.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-123).
Table of contents: title: 1. Some medical effects of isolation; title: 2. Malaria and scrub typhus; title: 3. Eighteenth-century European explorers; title: 4. Leprosy; title: 5. Yaws and sexually transmitted diseases; title: 6. Tuberculosis; title: 7. Animal parasites; title: 8. Eye diseases; title: 9. Other bacterial, fungal and viral infections; title: 10. The end of isolation.