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- catalog abstract "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, the 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.). 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.".
- catalog contributor b10304365.
- catalog coverage "Americas".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Columbus's returning sailors.). 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.".
- catalog description "Introduction. Tropical Diseases -- As Anglo-American as the Heart Attack -- Ch. 1. Coming to the Americas: 50,000 B.C. to 1492 A.D. -- The Humans -- Ch. 2. Coming to the Americas: 50,000 B.C. to 1492 A.D. -- The Worms and Germs -- Ch. 3. Who gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? 1492 to 1635 A.D. -- Ch. 4. Ten Little Indians and Then There Was One: 1492 to 1635 A.D. -- Ch. 5. Coming to America 1638 to 1865: From Africa on the Slave Ship Named Desire -- Ch. 6. The Germ's Warfare Discovered: 1650 to 1865 -- Ch. 7. Yellow Jack and the Cuban Crisis: 1885 to 1900 -- Ch. 8. Great Works 1900 to 1925: Kid Rockefeller and the Battling Hookworm -- Ch. 9. Great Works 1915 to 1945: The Fever Is Broken -- Ch. 10. Great Expectations 1900 to 1945: Malaria -- Death at Our Doorstep -- Ch. 11. Merrie Malarious Olde England: Before 1930 -- Ch. 12. Paradise Lost 1945 to 1996 -- Ch. 13. The Twenty-first Century.".
- catalog description "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, the 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.".
- catalog extent "256 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0393040844".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.W. Norton,".
- catalog spatial "America.".
- catalog spatial "Americas".
- catalog subject "1998 G-720".
- catalog subject "616.9/883 20".
- catalog subject "RC962.A45 D47 1997".
- catalog subject "Tropical Medicine history".
- catalog subject "Tropical Medicine.".
- catalog subject "Tropical medicine America.".
- catalog subject "WC 680 D467w 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction. Tropical Diseases -- As Anglo-American as the Heart Attack -- Ch. 1. Coming to the Americas: 50,000 B.C. to 1492 A.D. -- The Humans -- Ch. 2. Coming to the Americas: 50,000 B.C. to 1492 A.D. -- The Worms and Germs -- Ch. 3. Who gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? 1492 to 1635 A.D. -- Ch. 4. Ten Little Indians and Then There Was One: 1492 to 1635 A.D. -- Ch. 5. Coming to America 1638 to 1865: From Africa on the Slave Ship Named Desire -- Ch. 6. The Germ's Warfare Discovered: 1650 to 1865 -- Ch. 7. Yellow Jack and the Cuban Crisis: 1885 to 1900 -- Ch. 8. Great Works 1900 to 1925: Kid Rockefeller and the Battling Hookworm -- Ch. 9. Great Works 1915 to 1945: The Fever Is Broken -- Ch. 10. Great Expectations 1900 to 1945: Malaria -- Death at Our Doorstep -- Ch. 11. Merrie Malarious Olde England: Before 1930 -- Ch. 12. Paradise Lost 1945 to 1996 -- Ch. 13. The Twenty-first Century.".
- catalog title "Who gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? : torrid diseases in a temperate world / by Robert S. Desowitz.".
- catalog type "text".