The Ten-Thousand Year Fever : Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malarias.
Title:
The Ten-Thousand Year Fever : Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malarias.
Author:
Cormier, Loretta A.
ISBN:
9781611327977
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (243 pages)
Series:
New Frontiers in Historical Ecology
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Malaria as a Primate Disorder -- 2. Co-Evolution: Parasites, Vectors, and Hosts -- 3. Falciparum Type: The Great Ape Malaria -- 4. Vivax Type: The Macaque Malaria -- 5. Migration: Malaria in the New World -- 6. Rhesus Factor: Experimental Studies in Wild Primates -- 7. Ethics: Human Experimentation -- 8. Future: The Primate Malaria Landscape -- Appendix 1: Plasmodia Parasites and Their Natural Primate Hosts -- Appendix 2: Experimentally Induced Plasmodium Cross-Infections into Novel Hosts -- Appendix 3: Naturally Acquired Cross-Infections with Novel Malaria Parasites -- Appendix 4: Primate Species and All Infections with Plasmodium Parasites -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Malaria is one of the oldest recorded diseases in human history, and its 10,000-year relationship to primates can teach us why it will be one of the most serious threats to humanity in the 21st century. In this pathbreaking book Loretta Cormier integrates a wide range of data from molecular biology, ethnoprimatology, epidemiology, ecology, anthropology, and other fields to reveal the intimate relationships between culture and environment that shape the trajectory of a parasite. She argues against the entrenched distinction between human and non-human malarias, using ethnoprimatology to develop a new understanding of cross-species exchange. She also shows how current human-environment interactions, including deforestation and development, create the potential for new forms of malaria to threaten human populations. This book is a model of interdisciplinary integration that will be essential reading in fields from anthropology and biology to public health.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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