Research Catalog
Biology of populations : the biological basis of public health
- Title
- Biology of populations : the biological basis of public health / edited by Brenda K. Sladen and Frederik B. Bang.
- Publication
- New York : American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., 1969.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | 8947.862 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxii, 449 pages : illustrations, charts, photographs; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book provides a collection of essays on population dynamics and other aspects of ecology, population genetics, ethology, and the nature of interactions of populations in disease. These essays illustrate how animal and plant biology supports public health.
- Subject
- Social medicine
- Population biology
- Social psychology
- Animal populations
- Ecology
- Epidemiology
- Population genetics
- Human ecology
- Human genetics
- Ecology
- Epidemiology
- Genetics, Population
- Social Behavior
- Psychology, Social
- Social Medicine
- Écologie humaine
- Épidémiologie
- Génétique humaine
- Psychologie sociale
- Médecine sociale
- Biologie des populations
- Animaux > Populations
- Écologie
- Génétique des populations
- social psychology
- ecology
- human ecology
- Population genetics
- Human genetics
- Human ecology
- Animal populations
- Population biology
- Social medicine
- Social psychology
- Populationsbiologie
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Contents
- Introduction / Fredrik B. Bang -- Population growth of bacteria / Byron S. Tepper -- Population growth of viruses / William D. Hillis -- The ecology of the gastrointestinal tract / R. Bradley Sack -- Comparative demography / Brenda K. Sladen -- Experimental demography with laboratory invertebrates / Brenda K. Sladen -- The ecology of animal communities / Brenda K. Sladen -- Fluctuations of vertebrate populations / Charles H. Southwick -- Man's ecological environment / George B. Schaller -- Nucleic acids and hereditary mechanisms in microorganisms / Roger M. Herriott -- The biochemistry of some genetic processes / Roger M. Herriott -- microbial resistance to drugs / Bryon S. Tepper -- The cellular basis of heredity / Fredrik B. Bang -- Animal population genetics / Brenda K. Sladen and Bernice H. Cohen -- The genetics of insecticide resistance / Lloyd E. Rozeboom and Francis S.L. Williamson -- Genetic effects of radiations in human populations / William D. Hillis -- Introduction to behavior studies / Fredrik B. Bang -- Animal communication / William J.L. Sladen -- Social organization in some birds and mammals / William J.L. Sladen -- Population dynamics and social behavior of domestic rodents / Charles H. Southwick -- Social behavior of nonhuman primates / Charles H. Southwick -- Human social behavior / Anthony J. Reading -- Human group aggression / Jerome D. Frank -- Variation in disease susceptibility / Fredrik B. Bang -- The evolution of disease / Fredrik B. Bang -- Experimental epidemiology / Fredrik B. Bang --Viral-induced tumors in populations / Harvey Rabin -- The ecology of schistosomiasis / Fredrik B. Bang -- Arthropod populations as vectors and reservoirs of disease / Lloyd E. Rozeboom -- Vertebrate population as reservoirs of disease / Keerti V. Shah -- Senescence as a biological problem / Fredrik B. Bang.
- ISBN
- 0444000631
- 9780444000637
- LCCN
- 68028347
- OCLC
- ocm00054249
- 54249
- SCSB-1963724
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library