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It Takes a Genome: How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick
by Joyce A. Schoemaker, Paul J. H. Schoemaker, Anne Maczulak, Greg Gibson, David Cl
Germs, Genes, and Bacteria: How They Influence Modern Life (Collection)
Title Page
Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Introduction: our debt to disease
2. Where did our diseases come from?
3. Transmission, overcrowding, and virulence
4. Water, sewers, and empires
5. Meat and vegetables
6. Pestilence and warfare
7. Venereal disease and sexual behavior
8. Religion and tradition: health below or heaven above?
9. Manpower and slavery
10. Urbanization and democracy
11. Emerging diseases and the future
Further Reading
Index
Allies and Enemies: How the World Depends on Bacteria
Copyright Page
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Contents
Introduction
1. Why the world needs bacteria
2. Bacteria in history
3. “Humans defeat germs!” (but not for long)
4. Bacteria in popular culture
5. An entire industry from a single cell
6. The invisible universe
7. Climate, bacteria, and a barrel of oil
Epilogue: How microbiologists grow bacteria
Resources for learning more about bacteria
Bacteria rule references
Index
It Takes a Genome: How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Praise for It Takes a Genome
Preface: How a genetic culture clash with modern life is making us sick
1. The adolescent genome
2. Breast cancer’s broken genes
3. Not so thrifty diabetes genes
4. Unhealthy hygiene
5. Genetic AIDS
6. Generating depression
7. The alzheimer’s generation
8. Genetic normality
Notes
About the author
Index
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