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, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2011.
Description:	241 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New frontiers in historical ecology ; v. 2 New frontiers in historical ecology ; v. 2.
Subject:	Malaria. Medical parasitology. Primates -- Diseases. Medical anthropology. Malaria. Parasitology. Primate Diseases -- parasitology. Malaria. Medical parasitology. Primates -- Diseases.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8948610

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ISBN:	9781598744828 (hardback) 1598744828 (hardback) 9781598744835 (paperback) 1598744836 (paperback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-226) and index.
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 develop a new understanding of cross-species exchange. She also shows how current human-environment interactions, including deforestation and development, create the potential for new forms of malaria to threaten human populations. This book is a model of interdisciplinary integration that will be essential reading in fields from anthropology and biology to public health"--Provided by publisher.

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