Title: Plague Time: How Stealth Infections Cause Cancer, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments
Publisher: Free Press
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0684869004
ISBN 13: 9780684869001
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Good

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A noted biologist defends his controversial thesis that most of our worst killers--including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes--are in fact caused by infectious diseases.

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Paul W. Ewald, professor of biology at Amherst College, was the first recipient of the George R. Burch Fellowship in Theoretic Medicine and Affiliated Sciences. The publication of his Evolution of Infectious Disease is widely acknowledged by doctors and scientists as a watershed in the emergence of the new discipline of evolutionary medicine. He has been featured in The Atlantic, Newsweek, Discover, and Forbes. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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