Webber, Roger,

Disease selection : the way disease changed the world / by Roger Webber. - p. ; cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The sexual revolution -- Out of Africa -- Host/parasite interaction -- Using a vector -- The great plagues -- Missionaries of death -- The slave trade in parasites -- Eden's garden of South America -- A glass of water -- The great war -- Man's best friend? -- The animal connection -- Not clean -- Too clean -- The food we eat -- Cancer -- Climate change and population movements -- Disappeared and emergent diseases -- The future.

9781780646824 (hbk : alk. paper) 9781780646831 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2015020429


Communicable diseases--History.

RA643 / .W43 2015

362.1969

WC 11.1