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1	The Malaria Capers: Tales of Parasites and People more books like this by Robert S Desowitz add to wishlist A study of the present state of research in tropical diseases, this volume examines malaria, which still rages unabated in parts of the world, and kala azar, or the black sickness, which is endemic in India. This book was highly commended as a runner-up in the 1993 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book prize. see all copies from $3.19! new only from $9.37! \| SVS
2	New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People more books like this by Robert S Desowitz add to wishlist The medical tapestry of the world is full of organisms too small to see, carried by flying and creeping creatures too numerous to eradicate. see all copies from $3.74! new only from $9.37! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Tropical Diseases from 50,000 BC to 2500 Ad more books like this by Robert S Desowitz add to wishlist An exploration of how life-threatening diseases have travelled and continued to travel to Europe and America from Africa and Asia. History shows that many of the diseases we assume are tropical occur frequently in developed countries with temperate climates. The book explores what the social and economic effects of tropical diseases have been. The ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $7.72! \| first editions
4	Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World more books like this by Robert S Desowitz add to wishlist Writing from wide medical experience, Dr. Robert Desowitz is a veritable Sherlock Holmes searching out parasites and pathogens. Spanning a human history of over 50,000 years, he also looks ahead to the constant dangers of microbial diseases creeping into the industrialized world. An instructive, often humorous chronicle of how the worms and germs ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.82! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Federal Body Snatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of People, Parasites, and Politics more books like this by Robert S Desowitz add to wishlist Twenty years ago the world slept, confident that biomedical science would protect it from devastating plagues. Our wake-up call sounded at the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic. Then came more unfamiliar pathogens in its wake, such as the West Nile Virus. Meanwhile, the neglected diseases of the Third World, including malaria and African sleeping ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
6	The Thorn in the Starfish: The Immune System and How It Works more books like this by Robert S Desowitz add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| first editions \| SVS
7	New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and Peoples more books like this by Robert S. Desowitz add to wishlist see all copies from $19.00!
8	Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of Parasites, People, and Politics more books like this by Robert S Desowitz add to wishlist Twenty years ago, the world thought that biomedical science would protect it. Then came the AIDS epidemic and more unfamiliar pathogens in its wake. Meanwhile, the neglected diseases of the third world festered. Robert S. Desowitz traces the history of these diseases and the issues we must confront-the morality and legality of patent laws, global ... see all copies from $3.45! new only from $9.37! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Thorn in the Starfish: How the Human Immune System Works more books like this by Robert S Desowitz add to wishlist An expert scientist takes readers gently but with authority through the maze of modern immunology. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.88! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Malaria Capers: More Tales of Parasites and People, Research and Reality more books like this by Robert S Desowitz add to wishlist A realistic study of the present state of research in tropical diseases, this volume examines malaria, which still rages unabated in parts of the world despite over 100 years of medical research, and kala azar, or the black sickness, a disease spread by sand flies which is endemic in India. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $64.46! \| first editions
11	Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? more books like this by Robert S Desowitz add to wishlist Traces the origins of tropical diseases that have appeared in the United States, including the Ebola virus, yellow fever, and the Mexican pig tapeworm. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
12	Ova and Parasites: Medical Parasitology for the Laboratory Technologist more books like this by Robert S Desowitz add to wishlist see all copies from $32.96!

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