The Malaria Capers Tales Of Parasites And People

Author : Robert S. Desowitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393310085
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Malaria Capers written by Robert S. Desowitz and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1993 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reads like a murder mystery...[Desowitz] writes with uncommon lucidity and verse, leaving the reader with a vivid understanding of malaria and other tropical diseases, and the ways in which culture, climate and politics have affected their spread and containment." --New York Times

Author : Robert S. Desowitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393292371
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Malaria Capers: Tales of Parasites and People written by Robert S. Desowitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993-06-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reads like a murder mystery…[Desowitz] writes with uncommon lucidity and verse, leaving the reader with a vivid understanding of malaria and other tropical diseases, and the ways in which culture, climate and politics have affected their spread and containment." —New York Times Why, Robert S. Desowitz asks, has biotechnical research on malaria produced so little when it had promised so much? An expert in tropical diseases, Desowtiz searches for answers in this provocative book.

Author : Robert S. Desowitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039329238X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People written by Robert S. Desowitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1987-05-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medical tapestry of the world is full of organisms too small to see, carried by flying and creeping creatures too numerous to eradicate. A while ago, DDT and the antimalarial drug chloroquine seemed sure to make us all safe from such invisible assault. It was not to be. The mosquito has become resistant to DDT; malaria is on the rise; although tapeworms rarely turn up any longer in the most lovingly prepared New York City gefilte fish, a worm may inhabit your sashimi; some strains of gonorrhea actually thrive on penicillin; there is even a parasite for the higher tax brackets—the "nymph of Nantucket"; and there are new ailments—legionnaire's disease, Lassa fever, and new strains of influenza. In the long run, one might bet on the insects and the germs. Meanwhile Dr. Robert Desowitz has written a delightful and instructive book.

Author : Robert S. Desowitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393292150
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of Parasites, People, and Politics written by Robert S. Desowitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-03-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Desowitz's] stories...rank among the best current examples of medical detective prose."—Booklist 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.

Author : Robert S. Desowitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393254046
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World written by Robert S. Desowitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a medical fool's paradise, comforted, believing our sanitized Western world is safe from the microbes and parasites of the tropics. Not so, nor was it ever so. Past--and present--tell us that tropical diseases are as American as the heart attack; yellow fever lived happily for centuries in Philadelphia. Malaria liked it fine in Washington, not to mention in the Carolinas where it took right over. The Ebola virus stopped off in Baltimore, and the Mexican pig tapeworm has settled comfortably among orthodox Jews in Brooklyn. This book starts with the little creatures the first American immigrants brought with them on the long walk from Siberia 50,000 years ago. It moves on to all that unwanted baggage that sailed over with the Spanish, French, and the English and killed native Americans in huge numbers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (The native Americans, it appears, got some revenge by passing syphilis--including Pinta, a feisty strain of syphilis--back to Europe with Columbus's returning sailors.) Nor have the effects of these diseases on people and economics been fully appreciated. Did slavery last so long because Africans were semi-immune to malaria and yellow fever, while Southern whites of all ranks fell in thousands to those diseases? In the final chapters, Robert S. Desowitz takes us through the Good Works of the twentieth century, Kid Rockefeller and the Battling Hookworm, and the rearrival of malaria; and he offers a glimpse into the future with a host of "Doomsday bugs" and jet-setting viruses that make life, quite literally, a jungle out there.

Author : Rosemary Drisdelle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520945786
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parasites written by Rosemary Drisdelle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden away within living tissues, parasites are all around us—and inside us. Yet, despite their unsavory characteristics, as we find in this compulsively readable book, parasites have played an enormous role in civilizations through time and around the globe. Parasites: Tales of Humanity’s Most Unwelcome Guests puts amoebae, roundworms, tapeworms, mites, and others at the center of the action as human cultures have evolved and declined. It shows their role in exploration, war, and even terrorist plots, often through an unpredictable ripple effect. It reveals them as invisible threats in our food, water, and luggage; as invaders that have shaped behaviors and taboos; and as unexpected partners in such venues as crime scene investigations. Parasites also describes their evolution and life histories and considers their significant benefits. Deftly blending the sociological with the scientific, this natural and social history of parasites looks closely at a fascinating, often disgusting group of organisms and discovers that they are in fact an integral thread in the web of life.

Author : Robert Bwire
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469737302
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bugs in Armor written by Robert Bwire and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-02-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From military expeditions in antiquity to peacekeeping missions in the twentieth century, malaria has been the single most important medical problem confronting nonimmune troops in malarious regions. Its devastating effects were clearly visible during both world wars. During the Macedonian campaign in World War I, an exasperated French general could not counterattack as he desperately reported, "Regret that my army is in hospital with malaria." Malaria also popped up in Korea, Vietnam and during Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. Often malaria causes more casualties than enemy action. A 1772 Dutch force sent to quell rioting slaves in Surinam lost three-quarters of its troops to malaria, and only a handful to the rebels. Bugs in Armor takes the reader on a historical journey of military expeditions and their encounters with a relentless bugthe malaria parasite. It is also a story of how this confrontation fuelled research that gave the world a better understanding of the nature of malaria, its treatment and prevention.

Author : Friedrich Frischknecht
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658384077
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malaria written by Friedrich Frischknecht and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Frischknecht gives an insight into malaria and the biological complexity of the parasites that trigger it. The author takes the reader on a journey from the historical discovery of the pathogen to the modern methods of vaccine development. He explains how genetic manipulations help to understand the parasite and to develop novel vaccination approaches. He explains the difficulties that need to be overcome to eradicate malaria. The author: Prof. Dr. Friedrich Frischknecht studied biochemistry at the Freie Universität Berlin and did his PhD on smallpox viruses at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg. After a research stay at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, he has been head of a research group at the University Hospital in Heidelberg since 2005 and is interested in the molecular basis of the movement of malaria parasites.

Author : Paul Fleisher
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822534150
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parasites written by Paul Fleisher and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the lives of parasites, very small creatures that move from host to the next and their effect on the hosts.

Author : Alan Gunn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470684240
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parasitology written by Alan Gunn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parasitology: An Integrated Approach, provides a concise, student-friendly account of parasites and parasite relationships that is supported by case studies and suggestions for student projects. The book focuses strongly on parasite interactions with other pathogens and in particular parasite-HIV interactions, as well as looking at how host behaviour contributes to the spread of infections. There is a consideration of the positive aspects of parasite infections, how humans have used parasites for their own advantage and also how parasite infections affect the welfare of captive and domestic animals. The emphasis of Parasitology is on recent research throughout and each chapter ends with a brief discussion of future developments. This text is not simply an updated version of typical parastitology books but takes an integrated approach and explains how the study of parasites requires an understanding of a wide range of other topics from molecular biology and immunology to the interactions of parasites with both their hosts and other pathogens.