The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the Spirits

by James C. McCann

Book Overview

Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africa's most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology of the disease through the science of landscape change. All malaria is local. Instead of examining the disease at global or continental scale, McCann investigates malaria's adaptation and persistence in a single...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821421476
• ISBN13: 9780821421475
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"