Awards

• Commended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Environment) 2004
• Winner of Independent Publisher Book Awards (Health) 2004
• Winner of IndieFab awards (Health) 2003

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9781559639927

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oRefreshingly, this latest book explores the underlying shifts in human ecology and behaviour that have potentiated recent epidemics....Walters achieves a balance between environmental science, clinical medicine, human interest and social comment.o --Nature

Mark Walters weaves a fine thread of human disturbances through the quiltwork of modern pandemics. After being drawn engagingly into the explosivesymptoms of global environmental change, readers will come to understandthat we have no choice but to make peace with nature. --Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H. Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School

Author Information

Mark Jerome Walters is a professor of journalism and media studies at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. The author of two previous books and many articles, he was trained as a veterinarian as well as a journalist.

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