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

Author/Contributor(s):	Desowitz, Robert S
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	03/01/2004
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The world has been confident that biomedical science would protect it from devastating plagues. The wake-up call sounded at the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, West Nile virus, malaria and African sleeping sickness. Desowitz traces the histories of these diseases and the issues people must confront about them.