Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of Parasites, People, and Politics

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Ailments & Diseases, Infectious Diseases, General
Cover of the book Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of Parasites, People, and Politics by Robert S. Desowitz, W. W. Norton & Company
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Author: Robert S. Desowitz ISBN: 9780393292152
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: March 17, 2004
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Robert S. Desowitz
ISBN: 9780393292152
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: March 17, 2004
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

"[Desowitz's] stories...rank among the best current examples of medical detective prose."—Booklist

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 more unfamiliar pathogens in its wake, such as 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, the effect of global warming on epidemics, public support for the commercial biochemical industry, the growing dissociation of clinicians and public health professionals, and the terrifying shadow of bioterrorism.

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"[Desowitz's] stories...rank among the best current examples of medical detective prose."—Booklist

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 more unfamiliar pathogens in its wake, such as 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, the effect of global warming on epidemics, public support for the commercial biochemical industry, the growing dissociation of clinicians and public health professionals, and the terrifying shadow of bioterrorism.

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