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Disease Selection: The Way Disease Changed the World
Roger Webber
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Description for Disease Selection: The Way Disease Changed the World
Paperback. This book provides key information and is a valuable resource for students, practitioners and researchers working in global health and anyone interested in understanding of the basis of disease. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: MBNS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 380.
Diseases have had more influence on us than we realize. They have taken a major role in making us humans and probably determine the way we run our lives. They emerged with us from our ancestral home in Africa, to spread to the rest of the planet. History is full of the great epidemics of plague, smallpox and anthrax, with the present catastrophe of HIV that is changing the demography of the world in a similar way to its predecessors. We survived because of our genetic variation and immune system and it will be this that will save us again. ... Read more
Diseases have had more influence on us than we realize. They have taken a major role in making us humans and probably determine the way we run our lives. They emerged with us from our ancestral home in Africa, to spread to the rest of the planet. History is full of the great epidemics of plague, smallpox and anthrax, with the present catastrophe of HIV that is changing the demography of the world in a similar way to its predecessors. We survived because of our genetic variation and immune system and it will be this that will save us again. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
CABI Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Wallingford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780646831
SKU
V9781780646831
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Ref
99-50
About Roger Webber
Roger Webber is formerly of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
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