Island Epidemics

ISBN-13: 9780198288954 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 592 str.

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Opis

In Island Epidemics, the authors show that the complex warfare of invasion and extinction observed by Darwin for plants and animals applies with equal force to human diseases. A world picture is presented of diseases, which range from the familiar (influenza and German measles) to the exotic (kuru and tsutsugamushi), and islands which range in remoteness, from the accessible United Kingdom to the inaccessible Tristan da Cunha and Easter Island.

Recenzje

This book is both timely and welcome. It provides a careful synthesis that interweaves materials from a number of disciplines(medical history, epidemiology, statistics and geography) into a coherent and forceful argument for the pursuit of research into the indiosyncrasies of island epidemics.

O autorze

Andrew Cliff, Professor of Theoretical Geography, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ's College. Peter Haggett, Emeritus Professor of Urban and Regional Geography, University of Bristol Matthew Smallman-Raynor, Lecturer in Geography, University of Nottingham