Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah
The fascinating inside story of malaria - the fever and the mosquito - and their relationship with humans through the ages, revealing why it is on the rise across the world.
Fever
Summary
The fascinating inside story of malaria - the fever and the mosquito - and their relationship with humans through the ages, revealing why it is on the rise across the world.
Fever Summary
About Sonia Shah
Sonia Shah is a science journalist and author of the critically acclaimed Crude: The story of oil. A former writing fellow of The Nation Institute and the Puffin Foundation, her writing has appeared in The Lancet, The Nation, New Scientist and elsewhere.
Table of Contents
1. Malaria at our doorstep ..2. Birth of a Killer..3. Swept in Malaria's Current..4. Malarial Ecologies..5. Pharmacological Failure..6. The Karma of Malaria..7. Scientific Solutions..8. The Disappeared..9. The Spraygun War..10. The Secret in the Mosquito
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GOR013757377
9781742370484
1742370489
Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Allen & Unwin
2010-07-01
312
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