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

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  • ISBN: 0521004942
  • ISBN: 9780521004947
  • Physical Description: xvi, 413 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2003, c2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-401) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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