Yellow Fever, Black Goddess

The Coevolution Of People And Plagues

Christopher Wills (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

1997
Basic Books (Verlag)
978-0-201-32818-9 (ISBN)

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In this remarkable account, evolutionary biologist Christopher Wills takes us on a voyage of discovery through the exotic pasts of the viruses and bacteria that periodically emerge with such disastrous results for our species. It is our knowledge of their secret lives, the eons spent quietly passing in and out of myriad other life forms, mutating and coadapting, that gives us hope of taming them. By putting these organisms,from bubonic plague to Ebola,at centre-stage, Wills shows how we will eventually master them.

Christopher Wills is Professor of Biology at the University of California at San Diego. His books include Yellow Fever, Black Goddess and Children of Prometheus. Jeffrey Bada is Professor of Marine Chemistry and Director of the NASA Specialized centre of Research and Training in Exobiology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

The Anatomy Of Plagues * The Delicate Balance Between Life and Death * The Penumbra of Disease * The Worst of Times Chief Monster That Has Plagued The Nations Yet * Four Tales from the New Decameron * Was the Indian Plague Actually Plague, and if Not Why Not? Nave And Cunning Diseases * Cholera, the Black One * A Cleverer Pathogen The Challenge Of The Temperate Zones * An Ague Very Violent * Syphilis and the Faustian Bargain Plagues, Populations And The Biosphere * AIDS and the Future of Plagues * Safety in Diversity * Why So Many Diseases?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.8.1997
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-201-32818-6 / 0201328186
ISBN-13	978-0-201-32818-9 / 9780201328189
Zustand	Neuware