Emerging Infections: Three Epidemiological Transitions from Prehistory to the Present

by Barrett, Prof Ron Barrett, Matthew Ryan Dudgeon, et al.

Book Overview

Serving as both an accessible textbook and an original synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship, Emerging Infections traces the social and environmental determinants of human infectious diseases from the Paleolithic to the present day. Contrary to earlier predictions of a post-infectious era, humanity now faces a post-antimicrobial era with the emergence of drug-resistant pathogens and the entry of new and deadly viruses such as Ebola and COVID-19...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192843133
• ISBN13: 9780192843135
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 9.5"