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Understanding new, resurgent, and resistant diseases : how man and globalization create and spread illness

Title
Understanding new, resurgent, and resistant diseases : how man and globalization create and spread illness / Kurt Link.
Author
Link, Kurt, 1937-
Publication
Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.

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xiv, 179 pages; 25 cm
Summary
"Although medicine and sanitation in modernized countries are more advanced than ever, over the past three decades we have seen the emergence of some 30 new diseases, such as HIV, SARS, and Ebola. Lyme Disease, hepatitis C, Legionnaires' Disease, and even Jacob-Creutzfeld, the human form of a disorder we know as "Mad Cow," have made headlines. We are also facing a resurgence of diseases once thought nearly eradicated, including tuberculosis and smallpox, and the persistence of rare disorders such as leprosy. In this work, Dr. Link explains the extent of new, resurgent, and resistant diseases defying the abilities of science and medicine or finding strength in globalization or other facets of modernization."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-175) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Definitions and sources -- Ch. 2. Vectors : flies, bugs, mosquitoes, worms, protozoa, and others -- Ch. 3. History of diseases -- Ch. 4. New diseases are increasing -- Ch. 5. How resurgent diseases make a comeback -- Ch. 6. Zoonosis -- Ch. 7. Diseases of affluence -- Ch. 8. Bioterrorism and agroterrorism -- Ch. 9. Environmental pathogens -- Ch. 10. New diseases -- Ch. 11. Diseases of unknown cause that may be infectious -- Ch. 12. Greenhouse effect -- Ch. 13. Prevention : early detection, communication, screening, and quarantine -- Ch. 14. Applied research -- Ch. 15. Public health.
ISBN
  • 9780275991265 (alk. paper)
  • 0275991261 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2007003041
OCLC
  • ocm80460649
  • 80460649
  • SCSB-5341776
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries