The changing face of disease:implications for society

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Society for the Study of Human Biology.
Group Author: Mascie-Taylor C. G. N.; Peters J.; McGarvey S.
Published: CRC Press,
Publisher Address: Boca Raton, FL
Publication Dates: 2004.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Society for the study of human biology series
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Carrier Form: xvi, 208 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0415322804
Index Number: R1
CLC: R1
R366-05
R12
Call Number: R1/C456-1
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Emerging disease in the third epidemiological transition -- Life history perspectives on human disease -- The Evolution, transmission and geographic spread of infectious diseases in human populations: questions and models -- Genetic epidemiology of parasitic diseases -- Urban pollution, disease and the health of children -- Protecting pregnant women from malaria -- Interdisciplinary research on Schistosoma japonicum -- Unravelling gene-environment interactions in type 2 diabetes -- Investigating the "hidden" epidemic: sexual behaviour and representation of HIV/AIDS amongst business people and medical personnel in five Central and Eastern European nations -- The Evolution of disease and the devolution of health care for American Indians -- The Public's health: the changing role of public health -- Human behaviour and the changing pattern of disease.