Breakout : the evolving threat of drug-resistant disease / Marc Lappé.
Breakout : the evolving threat of drug-resistant disease / Marc Lappé.
Breakout : the evolving threat of drug-resistant disease / Marc Lappé.
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San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, c1995.
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N616.07101/2
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English
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xi, 255 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Ecosystem Disruption and Disease -- 3. Understanding Natural Selection -- 4. Life, Death, and Cancer -- 5. Infectious Diseases -- 6. Lethal Germs -- 7. AIDS -- 8. Attacks Against the Self -- 9. Vulnerability to Disease -- 10. Malaria -- 11. Evolution and Asthma -- 12. Conclusio...
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San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, c1995.
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California
Date Published
c1995.
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The age-old chess game of host and disease, continually evolving, has changed radically in our time. The basic cause lies in our destruction of remote ecosystems, thereby unleashing new viruses. With our own bodies widely available to them, these new infectious organisms can easily traverse the "global village." AIDS, breast cancer, cholera, malari...
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Breakout : the evolving threat of drug-resistant disease / Marc Lappé.
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Originally published: Evolutionary medicine. c1994.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-246) and index.
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c1995.
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N616.07101/2
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74VMx33KZaoy
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0871563827 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780871563828 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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616.07101
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991002695709702626
