The Ten-Thousand Year Fever : Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malarias.

The Ten-Thousand Year Fever : Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malarias.

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Author / Creator:Cormier, Loretta A.
Imprint:Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (243 pages)
Language:English
Series:New frontiers in historical ecology ; v. 2
New frontiers in historical ecology ; v. 2.
Subject:
Malaria.
Medical parasitology.
Primates -- Diseases.
Protozoan Infections.
Animal Diseases.
Parasitic Diseases.
Disease.
Malaria.
Primate Diseases.
Malaria.
Medical parasitology.
Primates -- Diseases.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11279163
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ISBN:9781611327977
1611327970
9781598744828
1598744828
9781598744835
1598744836
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Malaria is one of the oldest recorded diseases in human history, and its 10,000-year relationship to primates can teach us why it will be one of the most serious threats to humanity in the 21st century. In this pathbreaking book Loretta Cormier integrates a wide range of data from molecular biology, ethnoprimatology, epidemiology, ecology, anthropology, and other fields to reveal the intimate relationships between culture and environment that shape the trajectory of a parasite. She argues against the entrenched distinction between human and non-human malarias, using ethnoprimatology to develo.
Other form:Print version: Cormier, Loretta A. Ten-Thousand Year Fever : Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malarias. Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, ©2011 9781598744828

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