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The MIT Press
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
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"The COVID pandemic won't be our last - because what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also makes us human. That is the uncomfortable but all-too-timely message of The Human Disease, which travels through history and around the globe to examine how and why pandemics are an inescapable threat of our own making. Drawing on dozens of disciplines - from medicine, epidemiology, and microbiology to anthropology, sociology, ecology, and neuroscience - as...
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Language:
English
Description:
In this book the author, a Harvard evolutionary biologist presents an account of how the human body has evolved over millions of years, examining how an increasing disparity between the needs of Stone Age bodies and the realities of the modern world are fueling a paradox of greater longevity and chronic disease. It illuminates the major transformations that contributed key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based...
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Publisher:
Viking
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
"The epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the creation of some of the world's most important vaccines. Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated fetuses. In June 1962, a young biologist...
Author:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
[2021]
Language:
English
Description:
"How pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning-and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a speciesPlagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity's uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary...
Author:
Publisher:
Celadon Books
Pub. Date:
©2022
Language:
English
Description:
"From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society. Having spent a ground-breaking careerstudying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to...
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Publisher:
Scribner
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
This history of mankind's battles against infectious diseases looks at how epidemics shaped empires and economies and how medical revolutions freed us from these cycles until new threats caused by changes in global trade and climate.
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Publisher:
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date:
2024
Lexile measure:
1060L
Language:
English
Description:
Part of the nonfiction Orca Timeline series, with photographs and illustrations throughout, this book examines the history, science, ethics and social issues related to infectious diseases and vaccines. Our best shot. Vaccination is one of humanity's most effective and greatest discoveries. Infections like the plague, smallpox and other deadly diseases have affected and killed people for thousands of years, but the invention of vaccines forever...
Author:
Publisher:
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date:
[2016]
Language:
English
Description:
"Thomas Cowan was a 20-year-old Duke grad--bright, skeptical, and already disillusioned with industrial capitalism--when he joined the Peace Corps in the mid-1970s for a two-year tour in Swaziland. There, he encountered the work of Rudolf Steiner and Weston A. Price--two men whose ideas would fascinate and challenge him for decades to come. Both drawn to the art of healing and repelled by the way medicine was--and continues to be--practiced in the...
17. Lyme disease
Publisher:
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Pub. Date:
c2008
Language:
English
Description:
Lyme disease which has become a serious public health threat is caused the bite of deer ticks carried by wild deer that are common in suburban areas. Therefore, this program tries to familiarize the viewer with the symptoms of and treatments for Lyme disease as well as providing information on how to prevent deer tick bites.