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