Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Tropical Diseases in a Temperate World

Desowitz, Robert S

ISBN 10: 0393040844 / ISBN 13: 9780393040845

Published by W. W. Norton & Co., 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Tropical Diseases in a Temperate World
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393040844
• ISBN 13: 9780393040845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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.

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.