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- catalog abstract "Twenty Years Ago The World Slept, confident that biomedical science would protect it from devastating plagues. Our wake-up call sounded at the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic. Then came other unfamiliar pathogens in its wake, among them the West Nile virus. Meanwhile, the neglected diseases of the third world, including malaria and African sleeping sickness, festered -- their victims salvageable only by unaffordable, patent-protected drugs. Robert S. Desowitz traces the histories of these diseases and the issues we must confront -- the morality and legality of patent laws covering biomedical "inventions," the effect of global warming on epidemics, the commercial relationships of publicly supported biomedical scientists and industry, and the growing dissociation of clinicians and public health professionals. The resolution of these issues, now under the terrifying shadow of bioterrorism, is essential for the well-being -- possibly even for the ultimate survival -- of the entire human species.".
- catalog contributor b13081078.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description "Twenty Years Ago The World Slept, confident that biomedical science would protect it from devastating plagues. Our wake-up call sounded at the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic. Then came other unfamiliar pathogens in its wake, among them the West Nile virus. Meanwhile, the neglected diseases of the third world, including malaria and African sleeping sickness, festered -- their victims salvageable only by unaffordable, patent-protected drugs. Robert S. Desowitz traces the histories of these diseases and the issues we must confront -- the morality and legality of patent laws covering biomedical "inventions," the effect of global warming on epidemics, the commercial relationships of publicly supported biomedical scientists and industry, and the growing dissociation of clinicians and public health professionals. The resolution of these issues, now under the terrifying shadow of bioterrorism, is essential for the well-being -- possibly even for the ultimate survival -- of the entire human species.".
- catalog description "West Nile Virus -- DDT -- Malaria -- New Guinea Retrovirus -- Cryptosporidiosis.".
- catalog extent "x, 262 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0393051854".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.W. Norton & Co.,".
- catalog subject "2002 N-467".
- catalog subject "616.9 21".
- catalog subject "Communicable Disease Control history Popular Works.".
- catalog subject "Communicable diseases Popular works.".
- catalog subject "Disease Outbreaks history Popular Works.".
- catalog subject "Epidemiology Popular works.".
- catalog subject "Parasitic Diseases transmission Popular Works.".
- catalog subject "RA643 .D47 2002".
- catalog subject "Social medicine Popular works.".
- catalog subject "WC 11.1 D467f 2002".
- catalog subject "Zoonoses etiology Popular Works.".
- catalog tableOfContents "West Nile Virus -- DDT -- Malaria -- New Guinea Retrovirus -- Cryptosporidiosis.".
- catalog title "Federal bodysnatchers and the New Guinea virus : people, parasites, politics / Robert S. Desowitz.".
- catalog type "Popular works. fast".
- catalog type "text".