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Mosquitopia : the place of pests in a healthy world
This edited volume brings together natural scientists, social scientists and humanists to assess if (or how) we may begin to coexist harmoniously with the mosquito. The mosquito is humanity’s deadliest animal, killing over a million people each year by transmitting malaria, yellow fever, Zika and several other diseases. Yet of the 3,500 species of mosquito on Earth, only a few dozen of them a…
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- 9781003056034
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- xxi, 290p.: ill.
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- 595.772 MOS m
Malarial subjects : empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909
Malaria was considered one of the most widespread disease-causing entities in the nineteenth century. It was associated with a variety of frailties far beyond fevers, ranging from idiocy to impotence. And yet, it was not a self-contained category. The reconsolidation of malaria as a diagnostic category during this period happened within a wider context in which cinchona plants and their most va…
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- 9781316771617
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- xv, 332p. : ill.
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- 616.936200954 ROY m
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