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Plague's Progress: A Social History of Man and Disease 瘟疫的进展：人类与疾病的社会史【英文原版】

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作者(美)阿诺·卡伦(Arno Karlen)著

出版社PHCENIX

出版时间2001

装帧平装

尺寸20 × 13.5 cm

页数266页

正文语种英语

上书时间2025-03-18

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商品描述: 作者简介阿诺．卡伦(Arno Karlen)是位作家、研究员，以及教育家。他针对历史、医学与行为科学所写的论文，曾出现在许多学术性期刊和畅销杂志上，著作包括：《拿破仑的腺体与生物史上的其他历险》(Napoleon's Glands and Other Ventures in Biohistory)，以及《性欲与同性恋》 (Sexuality and Homosexuality)。现居纽约市。

The Black Death and smallpox are behind us, the age of antibiotics and organ transplants is here. Yet a tide of new epidemics is rising around the world; AIDS, Lyme disease and 'mad cow' disease are just a few of dozens that have appeared in recent decades. Where do these new diseases come from, and why now?

In this startling, lucid book, biohistorian Arno Karlen explains this plague of plagues. He shows that waves of new diseases have happened before, at crucial times in human history, when people dramatically changed their lives and environment. Today, by radically altering our landscape, technology and lifestyles, we again invite new epidemics. Travel and trade are making the world a global village for microbes, and even new medical technology is creating new infections. There is cause for alarm, but not despair. Our ancestors survived such crises, and now so must we. As this book shows, the first step is understanding how, from prehistory until today, men and microbes have been in an intimate dance of mutual adaptation.