Table of Contents

1: Questions, Terminology, and Underlying Principles
2: Diversity and Characteristics of Primate Parasites
3: Primate Socioecology and Disease Risk: Predictions and Rationale
4: Host-Parasite Dynamics and Epidemiological Principles
5: Host Defenses: The Immune System and Behavioral Counterstrategies
6: Infectious Disease and Primate Social Systems
7: Parasites and Primate Conservation
8: From Nonhuman Primates to Human Health and Evolution
9: Concluding Remarks and Future Directions

About the Author

Charles Nunn is a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California in Berkeley, USA. His research interests include primate behaviour, disease ecology and comparative biology.
Sonia Altizer is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ecology of the University of Georgia, USA . Her research focuses on the ecology and evolution of host-pathogen interactions in wild animal populations.

Reviews

I would highly recommend this book to behavioural scientists, veterinarians working with nonhuman primates in biomedical, zoological or field settings and to investigators utilizing nonhuman primates in their disease programs. American Journal of Primatology 69:1 (2007) The nine chapters of this logically structured book will appeal to ecologists, evolutionary biologists, primatologists, and especially to students in these fields seeking a better understanding of disease biology, epidemiological principals, and comparative evolutionary analyses, On the whole, the publication of this book marks, if not the birth of a new field, its transition from childhood into adolescence. EcoHealth 2007. This innovative book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the emerging and topical field of disease ecology. I thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend it to those with a passion for diseases or primates. Raina K. Plowright, TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution (2006) ... a structured and thoughtful synthesis of a field that has never before been unified ... On the whole, the publication of this book marks, if not the birth of a new field, its transition from childhood into adolescence. EcoHealth 4, 231-233, May 2007