Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9780231535267
0231535260
9780231161947
0231161948
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Dickson D. Despommier's vivid, visceral account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites follows the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. He focuses on long-term host-parasite associations, which have evolved to avoid or even subvert the human immune system. Some do great damage to their hosts, while others have signed a kind of?peace treaty" in exchange for their long lives within them. They also, Despommier shows as he discusses these organisms with the reader, practice clever survival strategies that doctors hope to mimic.
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| Other form: | Print version: Despommier, Dickson D. People, Parasites, and Plowshares : Learning From Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013 9780231161947
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| Standard no.: | 10.7312/desp16194
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