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Author(s): Ethne Barnes
ISBN(s): 9780826330666, 0826330665
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 31.29 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0826330665

ISBN 13: 9780826330666 

Author: Ethne Barnes 

Recent interest in new diseases, such as HIV/AIDS and Ebola, and the resurgence of older diseases like tuberculosis has fostered questions about the history of human infectious diseases. How did they evolve? Where did they originate? What natural factors have stalled the progression of diseases or made them possible? How does a microorganism become a pathogen? How have infectious diseases changed through time? What can we do to control their occurrence? Ethne Barnes offers answers to these questions, using information from history and medicine as well as from anthropology. She focuses on changes in the patterns of human behavior through cultural evolution and how they have affected the development of human diseases. Writing in a clear, lively style, Barnes offers general overviews of every variety of disease and their carriers, from insects and worms through rodent vectors to household pets and farm animals. She devotes whole chapters to major infectious diseases such as leprosy, syphilis, smallpox, and influenza. Other chapters concentrate on categories of diseases (“gut bugs,” for example, including cholera, typhus, and salmonella). The final chapters cover diseases that have made headlines in recent years, among them mad cow disease, West Nile virus, and Lyme disease. In the tradition of Berton Roueché, Hans Zinsser, and Sherwin Nuland, Ethne Barnes answers questions you never knew you had about the germs that have threatened us throughout human history.Barnes, a paleopathologist, offers general overviews of specific diseases (West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, etc.) and their carriers.

Table of contents:

  1. Preface

  2. Introduction

  3. The War between Microbes and Men

  4. Early Humans and Their Diseases

  5. The Seeds of Change

  6. Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Gene Wars

  7. Invitation to a Minute Worm: The Schistosomes

  8. Braving New Worlds: Invisible Enemies of Settlers

  9. Domesticated Animals and Disease

  10. Cows, Mycobacteria, and Tuberculosis

  11. The Moral Disease: Leprosy

  12. The Coming of Civilization

  13. Syphilis: The Great Change Artist

  14. Memories of Smallpox

  15. Pestilence, Plague, and Rats

  16. Of Lice and Men: Plus Ticks, Mites, and Chiggers

  17. Marching to a New World Order: European Expansion and the Industrial Revolution

  18. Easy Route to Fame and Gripe: Cholera, the Salmonella Gang, and Other Prominent Gut Bugs

  19. Transoceanic Hitchhikers: Yellow Fever and Its Dengue Cousin

  20. Food for Thought: The Mystery Diseases

  21. The Globalization of Influenza

  22. Diseases of Modern Civilization

  23. The New Viral Wars and Sleeping Dragons

  24. Back to the Future

  25. Works Cited

  26. Index

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