Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease
Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15023750 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth F Kiple (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 213-214 |
| Publication date | 2003-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the history of medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-5140 • E-ISSN: 1086-3176 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bhm.2003.0025 |
| OpenAlex | W2036809195 |
| Language | EN |
A noted public health scientist and epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Tony McMichael takes up in this work very large and daunting questions of the determinants of human health—from the hunter-gatherer days, through the invention of agriculture, to the present, and then into a future made uncertain by our spectacular reproductive success on the one hand and our increasingly intensive economic activities on the other. In the author's words
Agriculture · Business · Disease · Environmental health · Futures contract · Human health · Hygiene · Pathology · Public health · Work (physics) · Engineering · Finance · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Health and Conflict Studies · History · Medicine
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |