{"product_id":"human-frontiers-environments-and-disease-past-patterns-uncertain-futures-paperback-9780521004947","title":"Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease; Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures (Paperback) 9780521004947","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHuman Frontiers, Environments and Disease\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePast Patterns, Uncertain Futures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA compelling account of the relentless trajectory of humankind across time and geography.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTony McMichael (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521004947, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 28 June 2001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e432 pages, 33 b\/w illus.  4 tables\u003cbr\u003e24.7 x 17.5 x 2.6 cm, 0.966 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This is a transcendental and grandiose book on a par with H. G. Wells' 'History of the World'.' Medical Sociology News\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis compelling account charts the relentless trajectory of humankind, and its changing survival and disease patterns, across place and time from when our ancient ancestors roamed the African Savannah to today's populous, industrialised, globalising world. This expansion of human frontiers - geographic, climatic, cultural and technological - has encountered frequent setbacks from disease, famine and dwindling resources. The social and environmental transformations wrought by agrarianism, industrialisation, fertility control, social modernisation, urbanisation and mass consumption have profoundly affected patterns of health and disease. Today, as life expectancies rise, the planet's ecosystems are being damaged by the combined weight of population size and intensive economic activity. Global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion and loss of biodiversity pose large-scale hazards to human health and survival. Recognising this, can we achieve a transition to sustainability? This and other profound questions underlie this chronicle of expansive human activity, social change, environmental impact and their health consequences.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Disease patterns in human biohistory\u003cbr\u003e 2. Human biology: the Pleistocene inheritance\u003cbr\u003e 3. Adapting to diversity: climate, food and infection\u003cbr\u003e 4. Infectious disease: humans and microbes coevolving\u003cbr\u003e 5. The third horseman: food, farming and famines\u003cbr\u003e 6. The industrial era: the fifth horseman?\u003cbr\u003e 7. Longer lives and lower birth rates\u003cbr\u003e 8. Modern affluence: lands of milk and honey\u003cbr\u003e 9. Cities, social environments and synapses\u003cbr\u003e 10. Global environmental change: overstepping limits\u003cbr\u003e 11. Health and disease: an ecological perspective\u003cbr\u003e 12. Footprints to the future: treading less heavily\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Environmental science, engineering \u0026amp; technology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Environmental science, engineering \u0026amp; technology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Environmental%20science,%20engineering%20\u0026amp;%20technology%20%5BTQ%5D%22\"\u003eTQ\u003c\/a\u003e], Epidemiology \u0026amp; medical statistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Epidemiology \u0026amp; medical statistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Epidemiology%20\u0026amp;%20medical%20statistics%20%5BMBNS%5D%22\"\u003eMBNS\u003c\/a\u003e], Public health \u0026amp; preventive medicine [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Public health \u0026amp; preventive medicine\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Public%20health%20\u0026amp;%20preventive%20medicine%20%5BMBN%5D%22\"\u003eMBN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004591919384,"sku":"9780521004947","price":58.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521004947i_629adcb3-ade6-452f-a9d0-28e72677632f.jpg?v=1691376421","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/human-frontiers-environments-and-disease-past-patterns-uncertain-futures-paperback-9780521004947","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}