The changing face of disease : implications for society /
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| Imprint: | Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2004. |
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| Description: | xvi, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Society for the Study of Human Biology series Society for the Study of Human Biology series ; 43. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5171584 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Part I. Historical aspects
- 1. Emerging disease in the third epidemiological transition
- 2. Life history perspectives on human disease
- 3. The evolution, transmission and geographic spread of infectious diseases in human populations: questions and models
- Part II. Current challenges
- 4. Genetic epidemiology of parasitic diseases
- 5. Urban pollution, disease and the health of children
- 6. Protecting pregnant women from malaria
- 7. Interdisciplinary research on Schistosoma japonicum
- 8. Unravelling gene-environment interactions in type 2 diabetes
- 9. Investigating the 'hidden' epidemic: sexual behaviour and representations of HIV/AIDS amongst business people and medical personnel in five Central and Eastern European nations
- 10. The evolution of disease and the devolution of health care for American Indians
- 11. The public's health: the changing role of public health
- 12. Human behaviour and the changing pattern of disease
- Index
