The Resource People, Parasites, and Plowshares : Learning From Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders, Dickson Despommier
People, Parasites, and Plowshares : Learning From Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders, Dickson Despommier
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- Summary
- Dickson D. Despommier's vivid, visceral account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites follows the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. He focuses on long-term host-parasite associations, which have evolved to avoid or even subvert the human immune system. Some do great damage to their hosts, while others have signed a kind of?peace treaty" in exchange for their long lives within them. They also, Despommier shows as he discusses these organisms with the reader, practice clever survival strategies that doctors hope to mimic
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Contents
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- Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. This New House: Trichinella spiralis; 2. Hooked on Parasites: Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus; 3. Houdini's Nefarious Cousins: The Trypanosomes, the Schistosomes, and the Lymphatic Filariae; 4. A Parasite for All Seasons: Toxoplasma gondii; 5. The Unholy Trinity: Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and the Hookworms; 6. The Long and the Short of It: Tapeworms- Taenia saginata, Taenia solium, Diphyllobothrium latum, Echinococcus granulosus, and Echinococcus multilocularis
- 7. All's Well That Ends Wells: Dracunculus medinensis8. Nature Has All the Answers. What's Your Question?; Glossary; Further Reading; Index
- Isbn
- 9780231161947
- Label
- People, Parasites, and Plowshares : Learning From Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders
- Title
- People, Parasites, and Plowshares
- Title remainder
- Learning From Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders
- Statement of responsibility
- Dickson Despommier
- Subject
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- Parasites
- Host-parasite relationships -- Popular works
- Host-Parasite Interactions
- SCIENCE -- Microscopes & Microscopy
- Electronic books
- Parasitic Diseases
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences | Anatomy & Physiology
- Host-parasite relationships
- Popular Work
- Popular works
- Parasites
- NATURE -- Animals | Wildlife
- Parasitology
- Parasitology
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences | Zoology | General
- Parasites -- Popular works
- Parasitology -- history
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Dickson D. Despommier's vivid, visceral account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites follows the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. He focuses on long-term host-parasite associations, which have evolved to avoid or even subvert the human immune system. Some do great damage to their hosts, while others have signed a kind of?peace treaty" in exchange for their long lives within them. They also, Despommier shows as he discusses these organisms with the reader, practice clever survival strategies that doctors hope to mimic
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Despommier, Dickson D
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Parasites
- Host-parasite relationships
- Parasitology
- Parasitic Diseases
- Host-Parasite Interactions
- Parasites
- Parasitology
- SCIENCE
- NATURE
- SCIENCE
- SCIENCE
- Host-parasite relationships
- Parasites
- Parasitology
- Label
- People, Parasites, and Plowshares : Learning From Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders, Dickson Despommier
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. This New House: Trichinella spiralis; 2. Hooked on Parasites: Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus; 3. Houdini's Nefarious Cousins: The Trypanosomes, the Schistosomes, and the Lymphatic Filariae; 4. A Parasite for All Seasons: Toxoplasma gondii; 5. The Unholy Trinity: Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and the Hookworms; 6. The Long and the Short of It: Tapeworms- Taenia saginata, Taenia solium, Diphyllobothrium latum, Echinococcus granulosus, and Echinococcus multilocularis
- 7. All's Well That Ends Wells: Dracunculus medinensis8. Nature Has All the Answers. What's Your Question?; Glossary; Further Reading; Index
- Control code
- ocn853360205
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780231161947
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 22573/ctt3cm87j
- c15ca16e-8c87-45b2-8c6f-b2afeb3c0213
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)853360205
- Label
- People, Parasites, and Plowshares : Learning From Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders, Dickson Despommier
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. This New House: Trichinella spiralis; 2. Hooked on Parasites: Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus; 3. Houdini's Nefarious Cousins: The Trypanosomes, the Schistosomes, and the Lymphatic Filariae; 4. A Parasite for All Seasons: Toxoplasma gondii; 5. The Unholy Trinity: Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and the Hookworms; 6. The Long and the Short of It: Tapeworms- Taenia saginata, Taenia solium, Diphyllobothrium latum, Echinococcus granulosus, and Echinococcus multilocularis
- 7. All's Well That Ends Wells: Dracunculus medinensis8. Nature Has All the Answers. What's Your Question?; Glossary; Further Reading; Index
- Control code
- ocn853360205
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780231161947
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 22573/ctt3cm87j
- c15ca16e-8c87-45b2-8c6f-b2afeb3c0213
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)853360205
Subject
- Electronic books
- Host-Parasite Interactions
- Host-parasite relationships
- Host-parasite relationships -- Popular works
- NATURE -- Animals | Wildlife
- Parasites
- Parasites
- Parasites -- Popular works
- Parasitic Diseases
- Parasitology
- Parasitology
- Parasitology -- history
- Popular Work
- Popular works
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences | Anatomy & Physiology
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences | Zoology | General
- SCIENCE -- Microscopes & Microscopy
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