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Evolution of Infectious Disease
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Table of Contents

1: Why This Book?
2: Symptomatic Treatment (Or How to Bind The Origin of Species to The Physician's Desk Reference)
3: Vectors, Vertical Transmission, and the Evolution of Virulence
4: How to be Severe without Vectors
5: When Water Moves like a Mosquito
6: Attendant-Borne Transmission (Or How are Doctors and Nurses like Mosquitoes, Machetes, and Moving Water?)
7: War and Disease
8: AIDS: Where Did it Come From and Where is it Going?
9: The Fight Against AIDS: Biomedical Strategies and HIV's Evolutionary Responses
10: A Look Backward...
11: ...And a Glimpse Forward (Or WHO Needs Darwin)

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A very readable account of his ideas intended for a general audience.

About the Author

Paul W. Ewald is a professor and Chair of the Biology Department at Amherst College, and holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has been named the first George E. Burch Fellow of Theoretic Medicine and Affiliated Sciences, a position awarded by the Smithsonian Institution and hosted by the Smithsonian Tropical Institute.

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". . .Ewald's enthusiasm for his topic reaches out to the reader from every page. . . . Ewald's book will arouse considerable interest. The topic is important and is presented in a palatable form that will appeal to a wide readership."--Politics and the Life Sciences
"Paul Ewald, an evolutionary biologist at Amherst College, argues that HIV may have infected people benignly for decades, even centuries, before it started causing AIDS....The idea may sound radical, but it's not just flashy speculation. It reflects a growing awareness that parasites, like everything else in nature, evolve by natural selection."--Newsweek
"[Ewald] infects both students and colleagues with his enthusiasm."--U.S. News and World Report
"Of interest to professionals in health science, epidemiology, and evolutionary biology, but also accessible to general readers."--SciTech Book News
"Important...The arguments in this book are well supported by data. The references are germane, including classical articles and current literature. The book is well written and deserves the attention of biologists, health scientists, and enlightened planners."--The Quarterly Review of Biology
". . .Ewald's enthusiasm for his topic reaches out to the reader from every page. . . . Ewald's book will arouse considerable interest. The topic is important and is presented in a palatable form that will appeal to a wide readership."--Politics and the Life Sciences
"Paul Ewald, an evolutionary biologist at Amherst College, argues that HIV may have infected people benignly for decades, even centuries, before it started causing AIDS....The idea may sound radical, but it's not just flashy speculation. It reflects a growing awareness that parasites, like everything else in nature, evolve by natural selection."--Newsweek
"[Ewald] infects both students and colleagues with his enthusiasm."--U.S. News and World Report
"Of interest to professionals in health science, epidemiology, and evolutionary biology, but also accessible to general readers."--SciTech Book News
"Important...The arguments in this book are well supported by data. The references are germane, including classical articles and current literature. The book is well written and deserves the attention of biologists, health scientists, and enlightened planners."--The Quarterly Review of Biology
"Ewald's use and command of the historical literature on infectious diseases is without parallel among evolutionary biologists...The text is...very readable and the treatment not at all technical....These attributes are a considerable virtue. The book should draw the large audience the subject deserves....The questions raised by Ewald and his premise about the potential utility of evolutionary biology are, we believe, right on. We hope his lead will be followed
by others."--Science
"Very interesting....A well written book that should be of interest to the educated layperson as well as the evolutionary researcher and the medical profession. Ewald presents a great deal of grist to chew on providing a lot of documented research on some of his theories and observations. There is a 70-page list of references that would keep any skeptic busy in looking up historical information. For the AIDS researcher, looking into the evolutionary route of
the disease should not be overlooked...Recommended for public, academic, and medical libraries."--AIDS Book Review Journal
"This book has much to offer in the way of biological information....Ewald places major emphasis on the evolution of drug-resistant strains of the disease....especially useful to students of medical geography."--Professional Geographer
"Many ideas in the book broaden the application of evolution to health care and the manifestation of disease. This milestone approach to disease may provide a new dimension in controlling virtually all diseases. High readability, up-to-date references, and a thorough discussion of infectious diseases make this an important work for health-care professionals interested in evolutionary biology."--Choice
"Dr. Ewald introduces an evolutionary approach to viewing pathogens in the book.... This analysis provides a synthesis of principles from health science, epidemiology and evolutionary biology, yet the text is still comprehensible to a general audience."--Yale Scientific
"Evolution of Infectious Disease is well-written, well-referenced, well-indexed and certainly deserves the attention of all health-related scientists."--SIM News

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