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Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World
by Robert S. Desowitz
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0393332640
- ISBN 13
- 9780393332643
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Paperback / softback. New. We live in a medical fool's paradise, comforted, believing our sanitized Western world is safe from the microbes and parasites of the tropics. Not so, nor was it ever so.
Synopsis
This “real life thriller” (Kirkus Reviews) of how tropical diseases have invaded North americanca is a fascinating mix of history and scientific adventure and “bulges with astonishing and instructive information” (Civilization). We have long believed that our sanitized Western world is safe from microbes and parasites of the tropics but according to Desowitz this is not so. Tropical diseases are as american as the heart attack.
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- Title
- Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World
- Author
- Robert S. Desowitz
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0393332640
- ISBN 13
- 9780393332643
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- This edition first published
- 1980-01
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