Viral Voyages

Author : L. Meruane
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137394994
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Viral Voyages written by L. Meruane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization.

Author : L. Meruane
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137394994
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Viral Voyages written by L. Meruane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization.

Author : Robin Marantz Henig
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dancing Matrix written by Robin Marantz Henig and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viruses are elusive, intrusive, and inscrutable, hence Henig's description of them as "a dancing matrix". Now comes an urgent and startling look at the cutting edge of viral research--the struggle to conquer today's epidemics and prevent tomorrow's using genetic engineering. 7 illustrations.

Author : Sunit Kumar Singh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118297520
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Viral Infections and Global Change written by Sunit Kumar Singh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely exploration of the impact of global change on the emergence, reemergence, and control of vector-borne and zoonotic viral infections From massively destructive "superstorms" to rapidly rising sea levels, the world media is abuzz with talk of the threats to civilization posed by global warming. But one hazard that is rarely discussed is the dramatic rise in the number and magnitude of tropical virus outbreaks among human populations. One need only consider recent developments, such as the spread of chikungunya across southern Europe and dengue in Singapore, Brazil, and the southern United States, to appreciate the seriousness of that threat. Representing a major addition to the world literature on the subject, Viral Infections and Global Change explores trends of paramount concern globally, regarding the emergence and reemergence of vector-borne and zoonotic viruses. It also provides up-to-date coverage of both the clinical aspects and basic science behind an array of specific emerging and reemerging infections, including everything from West Nile fever and Rift Valley fever to zoonotic hepatitis E and human bunyavirus. Important topics covered include: Epidemiology, molecular pathogenesis, and evolutionary mechanisms Host-pathogen interactions in an array of viral infections The impact of climate change on historical viral outbreaks The roles of socioeconomics, human behavior, and animal and human migrations The growing prevalence of drug and pesticide resistance The introduction of microbes and vectors through increased transboundary travel Spillover transmissions and the emergence of viral outbreaks Detecting and responding to threats from bioterrorism and emerging viral infections Predictive modeling for emerging viral infections Viral Infections and Global Change is an indispensable resource for research scientists, epidemiologists, and medical and veterinary students working in ecology, environmental management, climatology, neurovirology, virology, and infectious disease.

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Publisher : NIGMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Findings, March 2006 written by and published by NIGMS. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U.S.)
Publisher : NIGMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Structures of Life written by National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U.S.) and published by NIGMS. This book was released on 1991 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leroy W. Dubeck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387215883
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Voyages written by Leroy W. Dubeck and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By revealing the facts behind the fiction of some of the finest films in the sci-fi genre, "Fantastic Voyages" offers a novel approach to teaching science: using scenes from science fiction films to illustrate fundamental concepts of physics, astronomy, and biology.

Author : Dean Allbritton
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802076409
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain written by Dean Allbritton and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest traceable accounts of the AIDS outbreak in Spain began to emerge during its political transition to democracy, with small clusters of cases appearing as early as 1981. HIV/AIDS would go on to shape Spain throughout its pivotal period as a fledgling democracy, underpinning the cultural explosions of the Movida, a sharp rise in intravenous drug use, and the struggles of a coalescing LGBT+ community. Feeling Sick: The Early Years of HIV/AIDS in Spain examines the cultural history of these early years of HIV/AIDS in Spain as it has been told through television and print media, ephemeral products of visual culture, fiction film, and the so-called risk groups that lived through the epidemic. The book draws on the work of Raymond Williams to characterize this emergent period within a structure of “feeling sick” and thus defined by discordant voices, disagreement, and meaning-making in a period of history in formation. Through close readings of Spanish visual culture and media alongside analysis of historical and medical documents, it asserts that a structure of feeling sick begins to coalesce around the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces out a distinctive sense of living through history as it unfolds. By critically evaluating a selection of cultural materials, this book claims that the earliest years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Spain reveal common fears about global connectivity, the proliferation of vulnerable ties to others, and the potential of cultural and physical contaminations. Ultimately, Feeling Sick challenges the dominant narratives in which life and disease are seen as separate and unequal, and in which illness is only destructive and devastating. An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.

Author : Phyllis Kozarsky
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323070566
Total Pages : 1827 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travel Medicine E- Book written by Phyllis Kozarsky and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2008-06-06 with total page 1827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this popular text features a team of international experts who discuss all aspects of travel medicine-from immunizations and pre-travel advice for adults and children...to the latest information on cruise travel, bird flu, and SARS...to the essentials of post-travel screening. It reflects current ‘best practices’ and remains both the leading comprehensive reference text on the principles and practice of travel medicine and a rich resource of practical guidance that you can use daily. And, as an Expert Consult title, this thoroughly updated second edition comes with access to the complete contents online, fully searchable-enabling you to consult it rapidly from any computer with an Internet connection. Discusses common travel illnesses, including traveler’s diarrhea and malaria to help you treat whatever you see. Addresses environmental problems such as altitude sickness, extremes in temperatures, and sun exposure to help your patients prepare for high-risk activites in extreme environments. Offers advice on establishing and running a travel clinic. Provides access to the complete contents online, fully searchable, enabling you to consult it rapidly from any computer with an Internet connection. Features revised chapters to reflect current best practices as well as completely updated chapters, keeping you abreast of this rapidly changing field. Presents a new chapter on cruise travel to help you provide complete travel medicine advice. Provides cross references for the ISTM “body of knowledge? to specific chapters and/or passages in the book to help you prepare for the ISTM travel medicine examination. Uses a new logical organization that speeds you to the information you need. Provides cross references for the ISTM “body of knowledge? to specific chapters and/or passages in the book to help you prepare for the ISTM travel medicine examination.

Author : Alice Duhan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111209156
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and the Work of Universality written by Alice Duhan and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of accelerating ecological crises, global inequalities and democratic fragility, it has become crucial to achieve renewed articulations of human commonality. With anchorage in critical theory as well as world literary studies, this volume approaches literature - and modes of literary thinking - as a key resource for such a task. "Universality" is understood here not as an established "universalism", but as a horizon towards which intellectual inquiry and literary practices orient themselves. In the field of world literature, there is by now a wide repertoire of epistemological resources through which claims to universality can be both questioned and reconfigured. If, at one end of the spectrum, world literature confronts us with the spectre of homogenisation and the commodification of difference under a regime of global capitalism, at another end renewed forms of philological, anthropological and ecological attentiveness to the particulars of languages and texts within the crucible of connected histories allow for defamiliarising perspectives both on received historical narratives and aesthetic practices. Vernacularity emerges here as a central point of reference for constructing the universal from within the particular, the idiomatic, and the experiences of social subordination or complicity.