Plague Time: How Stealth Infections are Causing Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments - Hardcover

Ewald, Paul

 
9780684869001: Plague Time: How Stealth Infections are Causing Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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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