Equips rescuers and health care professionals to diagnose and treat the full range of emergencies and health problems encountered in the wilderness, from frostbite to infection by marine microbes, includng bites, stings, poisonous plant exposures, animal attacks, and natural dis…
Equips rescuers and health care professionals to diagnose and treat the full range of emergencies and health problems encountered in the wilderness, from frostbite to infection by marine microbes, includng bites, stings, poisonous plant exposures, animal attacks, and natural dis…
"While the big bad corporation has often been the offender in many of the world's greatest environmental disasters, in the case of the mass poisoning at Camp Lejeune, the culprit is a revered institution: the US Marine Corps. For two decades now, revelations have steadily emerge…
"While the big bad corporation has often been the offender in many of the world's greatest environmental disasters, in the case of the mass poisoning at Camp Lejeune, the culprit is a revered institution: the US Marine Corps. For two decades now, revelations have steadily emerge…
Despite medicine being grounded in biology, evolutionary biology is a relatively disregarded field. Macroanatomical features of our species have changed very little in the last 300,000 years, but there have been subtle changes in metabolism and immunology, including adaptations …
Originally published in 1980, this book focusses attention on various aspects of disease ecology. A series of contrasts appear, between urban and rural, temperate and tropical, and affluent and poor communities. These socio-geographical contrasts are related to a further dichoto…