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

Author/creator McMichael, A. J.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2001.
Descriptionxvi, 413 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 366-401) and index.
LCCN 2001273445
ISBN052180311X (hbk.)
ISBN0521004942 (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks RA441 .M427 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold