New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People write by Robert S. Desowitz. This book was released on 1987-05-17. New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers
New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers write by Robert S. Desowitz. This book was released on 1983-07-01. New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A medical ecologist examines the threat posed by disease-carrying parasites and insects and identifies the conditions--miracle drugs, destruction of natural controls--that have encouraged them to flourish
Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus
Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus write by Robert S. Desowitz. This book was released on 2004. Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world has been confident that biomedical science would protect it from devastating plagues. The wake-up call sounded at the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, West Nile virus, malaria and African sleeping sickness. Desowitz traces the histories of these diseases and the issues people must confront about them.
Parasite Rex
Parasite Rex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parasite Rex write by Carl Zimmer. This book was released on 2001-11-09. Parasite Rex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their destruction. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites are masters of chemical warfare and camouflage, able to cloak themselves with their hosts' own molecules. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites steer the course of evolution, where the majority of species are parasites. WELCOME TO EARTH. For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and in the darkest shadows of science. Yet these creatures are among the world's most successful and sophisticated organisms. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer deftly balances the scientific and the disgusting as he takes readers on a fantastic voyage. Traveling from the steamy jungles of Costa Rica to the fetid parasite haven of southern Sudan, Zimmer graphically brings to life how parasites can change DNA, rewire the brain, make men more distrustful and women more outgoing, and turn hosts into the living dead. This thorough, gracefully written book brings parasites out into the open and uncovers what they can teach us about the most fundamental survival tactics in the universe.
Parasitology
Parasitology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parasitology write by Eric Loker. This book was released on 2015-03-02. Parasitology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Parasitology: A Conceptual Approach focuses on the conceptual basis of parasitology, with the goal of providing students with an enriched view of parasites and their biology. Concentrating on concepts will enable readers to gain a broader perspective that will increase their ability to think critically about all kinds of parasitic associations. The interfaces between the study of parasitism and prominent biological disciplines such as biodiversity, immunology, ecology, evolution, conservation biology, and disease control are highlighted. Studying individual parasites is an essential part of parasitology so Parasitology: A Conceptual Approach contains an appendix which provides a concise overview of the biology of important human and veterinary parasites. End-of-chapter questions are provided, as is an instructor manual.
