Understanding New, Resurgent, and Resistant Diseases: How Man and Globalization Create and Spread Illness

by Kurt Link and M.D. Link, Kurt

Book Overview

In this work, Dr. Link explains the extent of new, resurgent, and resistant diseases defying the abilities of science and medicine, or often finding strength in globalization or other facets of modernization.

Although medicine and sanitation in modernized countries are more advanced than ever before, over the past three decades we have seen the emergence of some 30 new diseases, such as HIV, SARS, and Ebola. Lyme Disease, Hepatitis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275991261
• ISBN13: 9780275991265
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"