Table of Contents

1: Why This Book?
2: Symptomatic Treatment (Or How to Bind The Origin of Species to The Physician's Desk Reference)
3: Vectors, Vertical Transmission, and the Evolution of Virulence
4: How to be Severe without Vectors
5: When Water Moves like a Mosquito
6: Attendant-Borne Transmission (Or How are Doctors and Nurses like Mosquitoes, Machetes, and Moving Water?)
7: War and Disease
8: AIDS: Where Did it Come From and Where is it Going?
9: The Fight Against AIDS: Biomedical Strategies and HIV's Evolutionary Responses
10: A Look Backward...
11: ...And a Glimpse Forward (Or WHO Needs Darwin)

About the Author

Paul W. Ewald is a professor and Chair of the Biology Department at Amherst College, and holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has been named the first George E. Burch Fellow of Theoretic Medicine and Affiliated Sciences, a position awarded by the Smithsonian Institution and hosted by the Smithsonian Tropical Institute.

Reviews

From reviews of the hardback: 'I have not picked up a book on infectious disease with so much anticipation as Paul Ewald's Evolution of Infectious Disease I was not disappointed: Ewald's book is as teeming with ideas as some of us are with microbes. Evolution of Infectious Disease is a challenging and readable introduction to current thinking on the topic.' Nature '... this is a scholarly work, well-referenced, and up-to-date. Ewald has succeeded in producing an interesting and thought-provoking book.' The Lancet