Tropical Diseases: From 50,000 BC to 2500 AD

Tropical Diseases: From 50,000 BC to 2500 AD

by RobertDesowitz (Author)

Synopsis

An exploration of how life-threatening diseases have travelled and continued to travel to Europe and America from Africa and Asia. History shows that many of the diseases we assume are tropical occur frequently in developed countries with temperate climates. The book explores what the social and economic effects of tropical diseases have been. The final sections of the book address the health problems facing the Third World today, and the dangers that new doomsday bugs will be transferred to the First World.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 04 Aug 1997

ISBN 10: 0002555174
ISBN 13: 9780002555173

Media Reviews
Praise for The Malaria Capers: 'Like Stephen Jay Gould and Lewis Thomas, Desowitz manages to make the basic principles of his subject immediately comprehensible to the general reader.' New York Times 'Like a novelist, Desowitz draws the reader into the human tragedy of disease' Los Angeles Times