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Charting the relentless trajectory of humankind across time and geography, Anthony McMichael highlights the changing survival patterns of our ancient ancestors, who roamed the African savannas several million years ago, to today's populous, industrialized, and globalized world.
Charting the relentless trajectory of humankind across time and geography, Anthony McMichael highlights the changing survival patterns of our ancient ancestors, who roamed the African savannas several million years ago, to today's populous, industrialized, and globalized world.
Über den Autor
Tony (A. J.) McMichael is Professor of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has held positions in Australia, USA and UK, and has taught widely in Asia, Africa and Europe. He has advised WHO, UNEP, the World Bank and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on dietary, environmental and climatic influences on health. He has enthusiasms for palaeoanthropology and social history. His previous book published by Cambridge University Press in 1993 was Planetary Overload (ISBN [...]), a widely acclaimed and influential account of global environmental change and the health of the human species.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; 1. Disease patterns in human biohistory; 2. Human biology: the Pleistocene inheritance; 3. Adapting to diversity: climate, food and infection; 4. Infectious disease: humans and microbes coevolving; 5. The third horseman: food, farming and famines; 6. The industrial era: the fifth horseman?; 7. Longer lives and lower birth rates; 8. Modern affluence: lands of milk and honey; 9. Cities, social environments and synapses; 10. Global environmental change: overstepping limits; 11. Health and disease: an ecological perspective; 12. Footprints to the future: treading less heavily; Notes; Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2006 |
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Genre: | Umwelt |
Produktart: | Nachschlagewerke |
Rubrik: | Ökologie |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780521004947 |
ISBN-10: | 0521004942 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: |
McMichael, Tony
McMichael, A. J. |
Hersteller: | Cambridge University Press |
Maße: | 244 x 170 x 23 mm |
Von/Mit: | Tony McMichael (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 26.04.2006 |
Gewicht: | 0,741 kg |
Über den Autor
Tony (A. J.) McMichael is Professor of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has held positions in Australia, USA and UK, and has taught widely in Asia, Africa and Europe. He has advised WHO, UNEP, the World Bank and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on dietary, environmental and climatic influences on health. He has enthusiasms for palaeoanthropology and social history. His previous book published by Cambridge University Press in 1993 was Planetary Overload (ISBN [...]), a widely acclaimed and influential account of global environmental change and the health of the human species.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; 1. Disease patterns in human biohistory; 2. Human biology: the Pleistocene inheritance; 3. Adapting to diversity: climate, food and infection; 4. Infectious disease: humans and microbes coevolving; 5. The third horseman: food, farming and famines; 6. The industrial era: the fifth horseman?; 7. Longer lives and lower birth rates; 8. Modern affluence: lands of milk and honey; 9. Cities, social environments and synapses; 10. Global environmental change: overstepping limits; 11. Health and disease: an ecological perspective; 12. Footprints to the future: treading less heavily; Notes; Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2006 |
---|---|
Genre: | Umwelt |
Produktart: | Nachschlagewerke |
Rubrik: | Ökologie |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780521004947 |
ISBN-10: | 0521004942 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: |
McMichael, Tony
McMichael, A. J. |
Hersteller: | Cambridge University Press |
Maße: | 244 x 170 x 23 mm |
Von/Mit: | Tony McMichael (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 26.04.2006 |
Gewicht: | 0,741 kg |
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