"David Waltner-Toews is a rare flower, a poet, philosopher and scientist with ancient Scheherazade's talents at storytelling and a scholar's knowledge of myth and history...How wonderful to be entertained by literature like this while being educated on a critical issue at the same time." -- Globe and Mail
Emerging diseases like mad cow, SARS, and avian flu are -- for the moment, at least -- far more prevalent in animals than in humans. Still, the knowledge that measles, TB, and smallpox were at one time "emerging" diseases that eventually made a permanent, and quite deadly, jump to humans gives epidemiologists pause.
The Chickens Fight Back examines the various groups of animal diseases, explains what attracts them to the human population -- from food to sex to living conditions -- and offers suggestions for keeping them at bay. It also points out that diseases must be looked at from an ecological, cultural, and economic point of view as well as from a biological standpoint. Cooking meat till its well done and slathering on insect repellent for a hike in the woods are effective preventative measures, but as David Waltner-Toews notes, it's more important to fundamentally rethink humankind's place in the world.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 614.4/3
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781553652700 9781926685014
- LCCN
- RA639
- LCCN Item number
- W37 2007eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (246 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00224859 (OCoLC)647817612 (CaOOCEL)427658
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- The Chickens Fight Back 2
- The Chickens Fight Back 3
- Of Pandemic Panic 8
- And Scurrying Beasties 8
- Of Singing and Flight 8
- And Things That Go Bump in the Night 9
- With All Our Most Constant Companions 9
- Shall We Tell Our Tales of Woe and Delight 9
- Of Pandemic Panic 10
- Of Pandemic Panic 11
- And Scurrying Beasties 28
- And Scurrying Beasties 29
- Of Singing and Flight 86
- Of Singing and Flight 87
- And Things That Go Bump in the Night 122
- And Things That Go Bump in the Night 123
- With All Our Most Constant Companions 164
- With All Our Most Constant Companions 165
- Shall We Tell Our Tales of Woe and Delight 222
- Shall We Tell Our Tales of Woe and Delight 223
