Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity

Chivian, Eric; Bernstein, Aaron

ISBN 10: 0195175093 / ISBN 13: 9780195175097

Published by Oxford University Press (edition Illustrated), 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (edition Illustrated)
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195175093
• ISBN 13: 9780195175097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Illustrated.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Edited and written by Harvard Medical School physicians Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, Sustaining Life presents a comprehensive--and sobering--view of how human medicines, biomedical research, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, and the production of food, both on land and in the oceans, depend on the earth's disappearing biodiversity. With a foreword by E.O. Wilson and a prologue by Kofi Annan, and more than 200 poignant color illustrations, Sustaining Life contributes essential perspective to the debate over how humans affect biodiversity and a compelling demonstration of the human health costs.

About the Author

Eric Chivian, M.D., is the Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. He shared the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the lead editor and author of Last Aid: The Medical Dimensions of Nuclear War and Critical Condition: Human Health and the Environment.
Aaron Bernstein, M.D., is a Research Associate at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, and pediatrician at Children's Hospital Boston, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School.