Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures

Name: Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures
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ISBN: 9780521004947

ISBN-10: 0521004942

ISBN-13: 9780521004947

Edition: 2001

Authors: Tony McMichael

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This compelling account charts the relentless trajectory of humankind, and its changing survival and disease patterns, across place and time from when our ancient ancestors roamed the African Savannah to todays populous, industrialised, globalising world. This expansion of human frontiers - geographic, climatic, cultural and technological - has encountered frequent setbacks from disease, famine and dwindling resources. The social and environmental transformations wrought by agrarianism, industrialisation, fertility control, social modernisation, urbanisation and mass consumption have profoundly affected patterns of health and disease. Today, as life expectancies rise, the planet's…

Book details

List price: $85.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/28/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.89" wide x 9.72" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English



Preface



Disease patterns in human biohistory



Human biology: the Pleistocene inheritance



Adapting to diversity: climate, food and infection



Infectious disease: humans and microbes coevolving



The third horseman: food, farming and famines



The industrial era: the fifth horseman?



Longer lives and lower birth rates



Modern affluence: lands of milk and honey



Cities, social environments and synapses



Global environmental change: overstepping limits



Health and disease: an ecological perspective



Footprints to the future: treading less heavily


Notes


Index