Comments on: Book review – Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations/2019/01/23/book-review-climate-change-and-the-health-of-nations-famines-fevers-and-the-fate-of-populations/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:42:58 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Story of Earth’s Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/01/23/book-review-climate-change-and-the-health-of-nations-famines-fevers-and-the-fate-of-populations/comment-page-1/#comment-95120Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:42:58 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2998#comment-95120[…] all over it. I think the balance of the rest of the book is good: coverage of a large topic such as the impact of climate on human civilizations is appropriately limited given the vast scope of time considered here. I like that Prothero inserts […]

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]]>By: Book review – Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/01/23/book-review-climate-change-and-the-health-of-nations-famines-fevers-and-the-fate-of-populations/comment-page-1/#comment-82434Fri, 17 Mar 2023 22:40:06 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2998#comment-82434[…] The first encompasses the participants—man and microbe—but especially their environmental and ecological interactions, which are partially shaped by human behaviour. These factors include the rise of cities, warfare (always a sure recipe for disease outbreaks), infections from (domesticated) animals, trade and travel, and sex and drug use. It includes the double-edged sword of medical technology that extends lives but also creates populations of vulnerable, immuno-compromised people. It includes anthropogenic changes to landscapes. We are becoming increasingly aware that habitat destruction brings with it the risk of zoonoses: when human and animal populations come into contact, diseases can spill over from the latter into the former. Lastly, it includes the complex interaction between climatic changes and disease. […]

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]]>By: Book review – What Is Health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/01/23/book-review-climate-change-and-the-health-of-nations-famines-fevers-and-the-fate-of-populations/comment-page-1/#comment-21853Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:42:55 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2998#comment-21853[…] (p. 131). Archaeology and palaeopathology tell us that the shift from foraging to agriculture was a Faustian bargain that initially took a heavy toll on our health. Our stature diminished and especially our teeth […]

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]]>By: Book review – Nature’s Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/01/23/book-review-climate-change-and-the-health-of-nations-famines-fevers-and-the-fate-of-populations/comment-page-1/#comment-9622Fri, 22 May 2020 19:43:02 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2998#comment-9622[…] the 13th to the 19th century. McMichael gave a brief overview of this whole period in his book Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations, while noted archaeologist Brian Fagan wrote a book about it (see The Little Ice Age). The worst of […]

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]]>By: Book review – Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/01/23/book-review-climate-change-and-the-health-of-nations-famines-fevers-and-the-fate-of-populations/comment-page-1/#comment-9551Mon, 18 May 2020 15:30:20 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2998#comment-9551[…] authors, notably archaeologist Brian Fagan, have build careers on investigating the link between climate and the rise and fall of nations, although Trouet is quick to point out that it is an oversimplification to think that climatic […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/01/23/book-review-climate-change-and-the-health-of-nations-famines-fevers-and-the-fate-of-populations/comment-page-1/#comment-3906Tue, 07 May 2019 13:11:45 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2998#comment-3906[…] history to consider some of the more ultimate causes of the fall of civilizations (see my review of Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations). Given the scope of the book, leaving things is not a bad […]

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]]>By: Book review – Nature’s Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/01/23/book-review-climate-change-and-the-health-of-nations-famines-fevers-and-the-fate-of-populations/comment-page-1/#comment-3267Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:01:16 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2998#comment-3267[…] the 13th to the 19th century. McMichael gave a brief overview of this whole period in his book Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations, while noted archaeologist Brian Fagan wrote a book about it (see The Little Ice Age: How Climate […]

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