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Island epidemics / A.D. Cliff, P. Haggett, and M.R. Smallman-Raynor.
- Title
- Island epidemics / A.D. Cliff, P. Haggett, and M.R. Smallman-Raynor.
- Author
- Cliff, A. D. (Andrew David)
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- Description
- xxi, 563 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "In Island Epidemics, the authors show that the complex warfare of invasion and extinction observed by Darwin for plants and animals applies today with equal force to the micro-organisms which lie behind many human diseases.
- A constant theme in the book is the way in which technical developments over the last 150 years, notably in vaccination and transport, are fundamentally affecting the ways in which waves of epidemic diseases circle around the globe."--BOOK JACKET.
- Growing from their earlier studies of Iceland and the Fijian islands, they provide a broad world picture of diseases which range from the familiar (influenza and German measles) to the exotic (kuru and tsutsugamushi), and islands which range in remoteness from the nearby Faroes and Scillies to the inaccessible Tristan da Cunha and Easter Island.
- Series Statement
- Oxford geographical and environmental studies
- Subject
- ISBN
- 0198288956
- LCCN
- 99045685
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries