| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 370 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- A restless climate -- Climatic choreography of health and disease -- From Cambrian explosion to first farmers : how climate made us human -- Spread of farming, new diseases, and rising civilizations : mid-holocene optimum -- Eurasian bronze age : unsettled climatic times -- Romans, Mayans, and Anasazi : the classical optimum to droughts in the Americas -- Little ice age : Europe, China, and beyond -- Weather extremes in modern times -- Humans throughout the holocene -- Facing the future |
| Summary |
When we think ""climate change, "" we think of man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human history, and populations have had to adapt to its vicissitudes. Tony McMichael, a renowned epidemiologist and a pioneer in the field of how human health relates to climate change, is the ideal guide to this phenomenon, and in his magisterial Climate Change and the Health of Nations, he presents a sweeping and authoritative analysis of how human societies have been shaped by climate events |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human beings -- Effect of climate on.
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Climatic changes -- Health aspects
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Medicine -- History.
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Climate Change -- history
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Environmental Exposure -- history
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Hominidae
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History of Medicine
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history of medicine.
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SCIENCE -- Global Warming & Climate Change.
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Medicine
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Climatic changes -- Health aspects
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Human beings -- Effect of climate on
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Klimaänderung
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Naturkatastrophe
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Gesundheit
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Umweltkrankheit
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Anpassung
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Woodward, Alistair, author.
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Muir, Cameron, author.
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| LC no. |
2016034533 |
| ISBN |
9780190262969 |
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0190262966 |
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9780190262976 |
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0190262974 |
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