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Author McMichael, A. J. (Anthony J.)

Title Human frontiers, environments, and disease : past patterns, uncertain futures / Tony McMichael.

Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2001.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  362.1 M228h 2001    ---  Available
Description xvi, 413 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-401) and index.
Contents Disease patterns in human biohistory -- Human biology : the Pleistocene inheritance -- Adapting to diversity : climate, food and infection -- Infectious disease : humans and microbes coevolving -- The Third Horseman : food, farming and famines -- The industrial era : the Fifth Horseman? -- Longer lives and lower birth rates -- Modern affluence : lands of milk and honey -- Cities, social environments and synapses -- Global environmental change : overstepping limits -- Health and disease : an ecological perspective -- Footprints to the future : treading less heavily.
Subject World health.
Diseases and history.
Sustainable development.
Climatic changes -- Health aspects.
Human ecology.
ISBN 052180311X (hbk.)
0521004942 (pbk.)

 
    
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