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- Title
- Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World
- Author
- Desowitz, Robert S.
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Inc
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0393040844
- ISBN 13
- 9780393040845
Arguing that tropical diseases such as malaria are as American as heart attacks, Desowitz (epidemiology, U. of North Carolina) chronicles this unwanted baggage from the first American immigrants 50,000 years ago to jet-hopping Doomsday microbes. Pinta, a strain of syphilis, was native Americans' revenge on Columbus. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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About the Author
Robert S. Desowitz is professor emeritus of tropical medicine and medical microbiology at the University of Hawaii. He lives in Pinehurst, North Carolina. He is the author of three other Norton books: New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers, The Thorn in the Starfish, and The Malaria Capers.
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