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Stav | Nové |
Faktúra | Nevystavujem faktúry |
Obal knihy | brožovaná väzba |
Nosič | papierová kniha |
Rok vydania | 2014 |
Názov | Beasts of the Earth: Animals, Humans, and Disease |
Autor | Torrey Fuller E. ,Yolken Robert H. |
Nakladateľstvo | Rutgers University Press |
Počet strán | 208 |
Jazyk vydania | Angličtina |
Opis
Robert H. Yolken - Beasts of the Earth: Animals, Humans, and Disease
Product DescriptionHumans have lived in close proximity to other animals for thousands of years. Recent scientific studies have even shown that the presence of animals has a positive effect on our physical and mental health. People with pets typically have lower blood pressure, show fewer symptoms of depression, and tend to get more exercise.But there is a darker side to the relationship between animals and humans. Animals are carriers of harmful infectious agents and the source of a myriad of human diseases. Today, shared living quarters, overlapping ecosystems, and experimental surgical practices where organs or tissues are transplanted from non-humans into humans continue to open new avenues for the transmission of infectious agents. Other changes in human behavior like increased air travel, automated food processing, and threats of bioterrorism are increasing the contagion factor by transporting microbes further distances and to larger populations in virtually no time at all.While the authors urge that a better understanding of past diseases may help us lessen the severity of some illnesses, they also warn that, given our increasingly crowded planet, it is not a question of if but when and how often animal-transmitted diseases will pose serious challenges to human health in the future.Review"A super book . . . this important book provides a novel perspective on the current and future status of human disease. Highly recommended."--Joanne P. Webster, Ph.D. "reader in parasite epidemiology, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London""The authors' highly informative and well-written book about the animal origins of human diseases will thrill and horrify readers, partly because its tone is so inflammatory and partly because its facts are so startling. Torrey and Yolken do an excellent job addressing the origins of specific diseases...and they offer interesting details about the manifestations of disease in various cultures throughout the world history."-- "Publishers Weekly""This book brings a very important subject to our attention-the never-ending emergence of new human diseases . . . in every instance defying our predictions, in every instance reminding us of the complexity of our world, in every instance challenging our capacity to prevent and control the threat. . . . The public and its public health experts have a lot to learn here, but Fuller Torrey and Robert Yolken have provided us with a grand primer. If 'the devil is in the details' then at least we can now see some of the manifestations of this devil, and perhaps how we must deal with him."--Frederick A. Murphy, D.V.M., Ph.D. "Distinguished Professor, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California""This book is a wonderful combination of very readable scientific and historical underpinnings of past and present epidemics of the spread of diseases from animals to people. This is combined with charming literary glimpses of how these disasters were portrayed at the time."--Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D. "director, Public Citizen's Health Research Group, Washington, D.C."About the AuthorE. Fuller Torrey, M.D. is associate director for research at the Stanley Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, USA and a professor of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He has authored or coauthored eighteen books, includingThe Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present.Robert H. Yolken, M.D. is the director of the Stanley Laboratory of Developmental Ne
Parametry
- Język: English
- Producent: Rutgers University Press
- Liczba stron: 208
- Data wydania: 1970-08-22
- Edycja: None ed.
- Wysokość: 1.80 cm
- Długość: 22.60 cm
- Waga: 29.50 gram
- Szerokość: 27.14 cm
- EAN: 9780813571430
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