| Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of Parasites, People, and Politics Contributor(s): Desowitz, Robert S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393325466 ISBN-13: 9780393325461 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: The world has been confident that biomedical science would protect it from devastating plagues. The wake-up call sounded at the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, West Nile virus, malaria and African sleeping sickness. Desowitz traces the histories of these diseases and the issues people must confront about them. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Infectious Diseases - Medical | Epidemiology - Health & Fitness | Diseases - Contagious |
| Dewey: 616.9 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.58" W x 8.12" (0.55 lbs) 274 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Twenty years ago the world slept, confident that biomedical science would protect it from devastating plagues. Our wake-up call sounded at the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic. Then came more unfamiliar pathogens in its wake, such as the West Nile virus. Meanwhile, the neglected diseases of the third world, including malaria and African sleeping sickness, festered--their victims salvageable only by unaffordable, patent-protected drugs. Robert S. Desowitz traces the histories of these diseases and the issues we must confront--the morality and legality of patent laws, the effect of global warming on epidemics, public support for the commercial biochemical industry, the growing dissociation of clinicians and public health professionals, and the terrifying shadow of bioterrorism. |
Contributor Bio(s): Desowitz, Robert S.: - Robert S. Desowitz, a leading epidemiologist, is the author of New Guinea Tape Worms and Jewish Grandmothers and The Malaria Capers, among other books. He lives in Pinehurst, North Carolina. |