Guts of the Matter
Subtitle: A Global History of Human Waste and Infectious Intestinal Disease
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781108493437
Description: "The Guts of the Matter is a study of our oldest ecological problem: the transmission of infectious intestinal pathogens from human waste.1 Over deep time, fecal pathogens have killed innumerable infants and young children and been a principal constraint on human population growth. Over the past several generations, we have gained increasing control over the transmission of infectious intestinal disease"--