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    Conservation medicine : ecological health in practice / edited by A. Alonso Aguirre [and others].

    • Title:Conservation medicine : ecological health in practice / edited by A. Alonso Aguirre [and others].
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Aguirre, A. Alonso.
    • Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Environmental health.
      Ecology.
    • Medical Subjects: Environmental Health.
      Conservation of Natural Resources.
      Ecology.
      Environmental Medicine.
    • Description:xxiv, 407 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0195150937 (cloth : alk. paper)
    • Contents:I. Ecological Health and Change
      1. Introduction / James G. Else and Mark A. Pokras
      2. Defining Conservation Medicine / Gary M. Tabor
      3. Conservation Medicine: The Birth of Another Crisis Discipline / Richard S. Ostfeld, Gary K. Meffe and Mary C. Pearl
      4. Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Emerging Infectious Diseases / Paul R. Epstein
      5. Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Key Role for Conservation Medicine / Peter Daszak and Andrew A. Cunningham
      6. Effects of Endocrine Disruptors on Human and Wildlife Health / Theo Colborn
      II. Monitoring Ecological Health
      7. Monitoring the Health and Conservation of Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, and Their Ecosystems / A. Alonso Aguirre, Todd M. O'Hara, Terry R. Spraker and David A. Jessup
      8. Disease Monitoring for the Conservation of Terrestrial Animals / Linda Munson and William B. Karesh
      9. Emergence of Infectious Diseases in Marine Mammals / Carol House, A. Alonso Aguirre and James A. House
      10. Viruses as Evolutionary Tools to Monitor Population Dynamics / Mary Poss, Roman Biek and Allen Rodrigo
      11. Assessing Stress and Population Genetics Through Noninvasive Means / Samuel K. Wasser, Kathleen E. Hunt and Christine M. Clarke
      12. Animal Behavior as a Tool in Conservation Biology / J. Michael Reed
      III. Ecological Health and Humans
      13. Global Ecological Change and Human Health / Jonathan A. Patz and Nathan D. Wolfe
      14. Biodiversity and Human Health / Eric Chivian and Sara Sullivan
      15. Vector-Borne Infections and Health Related to Landscape Changes / David H. Molyneux
      16. Ecological Context of Lyme Disease: Biodiversity, Habitat Fragmentation, and Risk of Infection / Richard S. Ostfeld, Felicia Keesing, Eric M. Schauber and Kenneth A. Schmidt
      17. Zoonotic Infections and Conservation / Thaddeus K. Graczyk
      18. Chronic Effects of Toxic Microalgae on Finfish, Shellfish, and Human Health / JoAnn M. Burkholder
      IV. Implementing Conservation Medicine
      19. Ecological Health and Wildlife Disease Management in National Parks / Colin M. Gillin, Gary M. Tabor and A. Alonso Aguirre
      20. Wildlife Health, Ecosystems, and Rural Livelihoods in Botswana / Michael D. Kock, Gary R. Mullins and Jeremy S. Perkins
      21. Zoological Parks in Endangered Species Recovery and Conservation / Anthony Allchurch
      22. Mountain Gorilla and Conservation Medicine / Michael Cranfield, Lynne Gaffikin, Jonathan Sleeman and Matthew Rooney
      23. Linking Human and Ecosystem Health on the Amazon Frontier / Tamsyn P. Murray, James J. Kay, David Waltner-Toews and Ernesto F. Raez-Luna
      24. Deer Tick-Transmitted Zoonoses in the Eastern United States / Sam R. Telford III
      V. Conservation Medicine and Challenges for the Future
      25. Biodiversity in Biomedical Research / Joshua P. Rosenthal and Trent Preszler
      26. Introducing Ecosystem Health into Undergraduate Medical Education / David J. Rapport, John Howard, Robert Lannigan, Robert McMurtry, Douglas L. Jones, Christopher M. Anjema and John R. Bend
      27. Ecotourism: Unforeseen Effects on Health / Mary E. Wilson
      28. Global Ecological Integrity, Global Change, and Public Health / Colin L. Soskolne and Roberto Bertollini
      29. Wildlife Health and Environmental Security: New Challenges and Opportunities / Jamie K. Reaser, Edward J. Gentz and Edward E. Clark, Jr.
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