Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- I. Ecological Health and Change -- 1 IntroductionJames G. Else and Mark A. Pokras -- 2 Defining Conservation Medicine Gary M. Tabor -- 3 Conservation Medicine: The Birth of Another Crisis Discipline Richard S. Ostfeld, Gary K. Meffe, and Mary C. Pearl -- 4 Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Emerging Infectious Diseases Paul R. Epstein -- 5 Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Key Role for Conservation Medicine Peter Daszak and Andrew A. Cunningham -- 6 Effects of Endocrine Disruptors on Human and Wildlife Health Theo Colborn -- II. Monitoring Ecological Health -- 7 Monitoring the Health and Conservation of Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, and Their Ecosystems A. Alonso Aguirre, Todd M. O'Hara, Terry R. Spraker,and David A. Jessup -- 8 Disease Monitoring for the Conservation of Terrestrial Animals Linda Munson and William B. Karesh -- 9 Emergence of Infectious Diseases in Marine Mammals Carol House, A. Alonso Aguirre, and James A. House -- 10 Viruses as Evolutionary Tools to Monitor Population Dynamics Mary Poss, Roman Biek, and Allen Rodrigo -- 11 Assessing Stress and Population Genetics Through Noninvasive Means Samuel K. Wasser, Kathleen E. Hunt, and Christine M. Clarke -- 12 Animal Behavior as a Tool in Conservation Biology J. Michael Reed -- III: Ecological Health and Humans -- 13 Global Ecological Change and Human Health Jonathan A. Patz and Nathan D. Wolfe -- 14 Biodiversity and Human Health Eric Chivian and Sara Sullivan -- 15 Vector-Borne Infections and Health Related to Landscape Changes David H. Molyneux -- 16 Ecological Context of Lyme Disease: Biodiversity, Habitat Fragmentation, and Risk of Infection Richard S. Ostfeld, Felicia Keesing, Eric M. Schauber, and Kenneth A. Schmidt.

17 Zoonotic Infections and ConservationThaddeus K. Graczyk -- 18 Chronic Effects of Toxic Microalgae on Finfish, Shellfish, and Human Health JoAnn M. Burkholder -- IV. Implementing Conservation Medicine -- 19 Ecological Health and Wildlife Disease Management in National Parks Colin M. Gillin, Gary M. Tabor, and A. Alonso Aguirre -- 20 Wildlife Health, Ecosystems, and Rural Livelihoods in Botswana Michael D. Kock, Gary R. Mullins, and Jeremy S. Perkins -- 21 Zoological Parks in Endangered Species Recovery and Conservation Anthony Allchurch -- 22 The Mountain Gorilla and Conservation Medicine Michael Cranfield, Lynne Gaffikin, Jonathan Sleeman, and Matthew Rooney -- 23 Linking Human and Ecosystem Health on the Amazon Frontier Tamsyn P. Murray, James J. Kay, David Waltner-Toews, and Ernesto F. Raez-Luna -- 24 Deer Tick-Transmitted Zoonoses in the Eastern United States Sam R. Telford III -- V. Conservation Medicine and Challenges for the Future -- 25 Biodiversity in Biomedical Research Joshua P. Rosenthal and Trent Preszler -- 26 Introducing Ecosystem Health into Undergraduate Medical Education David J. Rapport, John Howard, Robert Lannigan, Robert McMurtry, Douglas L. Jones, Christopher M. Anjema, and John R. Bend -- 27 Ecotourism: Unforeseen Effects on HealthMary E. Wilson -- 28 Global Ecological Integrity, Global Change, and Public Health Colin L. Soskolne and Roberto Bertollini -- 29 Wildlife Health and Environmental Security: New Challenges and OpportunitiesJamie K. Reaser, Edward J. Gentz, and Edward E. Clark, Jr. -- Index.