The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia
Автор: James C. McCann
Год издания: 0000
Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africa’s most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology of the disease through the science of landscape change. All malaria is local. Instead of examining the disease at global or continental scale, McCann investigates malaria’s adaptation and persistence in a single region, Ethiopia, over time and at several contrasting sites. Malaria has evolved along with humankind and has adapted to even modern-day technological efforts to eradicate it or to control its movement. Insecticides, such as DDT, drug prophylaxis, development of experimental vaccines, and even molecular-level genetic manipulation have proven to be only temporary fixes. The failure of each stand-alone solution suggests the necessity of a comprehensive ecological understanding of malaria, its transmission, and its persistence, one that accepts its complexity and its local dynamism as fundamental features. The story of this disease in Ethiopia includes heroes, heroines, witches, spirits—and a very clever insect—as well as the efforts of scientists in entomology, agroecology, parasitology, and epidemiology. Ethiopia is an ideal case for studying the historical human culture of illness, the dynamism of nature’s disease ecology, and its complexity within malaria.
The historical guide to the Island of Malta and its dependencies
Автор: Giuseppe Pericciuoli Borzesi
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Полный вариант заголовка: «The historical guide to the Island of Malta and its dependencies / by Giuseppe Pericciuoli Borzesi».
Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia
Автор: George Waddington
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia : with maps and other engravings / by George Waddington and the Rev. Barnard Hanbury».
Historical and miscellaneous questions
Автор: Richmal Mangnall
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Historical and miscellaneous questions : for the use of young people : with a selection of British, and general biography / by Richmal Mangnall».
Illustrations, historical and critical, of the life of Lorenzo de Medici
Автор: William Roscoe
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Illustrations, historical and critical, of the life of Lorenzo de Medici called the Мagnificent : with an appendix of original and other documents : with cuts / by William Roscoe».
Historical life of Joanna of Sicily, queen of Naples. Vol. 1
Автор: Группа авторов
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Historical life of Joanna of Sicily, queen of Naples : Vol. 1 : and countess of Provence : with relative details of the literature and manners of Italy and Provence in the 13 and 14 centuries : in 2 volumes».