New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers
Subtitle: Tales of Parasites and People
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: April 1987
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780393304268
First sentence: Some time ago, while at London's Heathrow Airport on the way to Burma, I had occasion to use what the English genteelly refer to as the public convenience, and there I was startled to find a government poster warning the traveler of malaria, symbolized by a Godzilla-sized mosquito pouncing on a helpless world.
Description: A medical ecologist examines the threat posed by disease-carrying parasites and insects and identifies the conditions--miracle drugs, destruction of natural controls--that have encouraged them to flourish.