The guts of the matter : a global history of human waste and infectious intestinal disease / James L.A. Webb, Jr., Colby College, Maine.

Author
Webb, James L. A., Jr., 1952- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Description
xiv, 210 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

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    Studies in environment and history [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "The Guts of the Matter is a study of our oldest ecological problem: the transmission of infectious intestinal pathogens from human waste.1 Over deep time, fecal pathogens have killed innumerable infants and young children and been a principal constraint on human population growth. Over the past several generations, we have gained increasing control over the transmission of infectious intestinal disease"-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • List of figures Acknowledgements
    • Introduction
    • 1. Pathogens and parasites
    • Intestinal viruses, protozoa, bacteria
    • Intestinal worms
    • Deteriminants of diseases transmissions
    • Changing perspectives on childhood diarrheal diseases
    • The microbiome
    • Historical epidemiology epidemiology and contemporary interventions
    • Early change
    • Rethinking the first epidemiological transition
    • Patterns of vulnerability
    • Zones of infectious intestinal disease
    • Eurasian attitudes toward human waste
    • Early urband sanitation
    • Diffusion and amplification
    • The early diffusion of infectious intestinal disease to the Americas
    • The uses of human and animal wastes
    • Urban sanitation redux
    • Urban crisis of scale and the emergence of public health movements
    • Global cholera
    • Varitions
    • Early Seweage
    • Death by sewage
    • Dry Earth: and "Tub-and-Pail" Systems
    • Sewage farming and trenching household hygiene and contaminated milk
    • The typhoid fevr vaccine
    • Water filtration and disinfection
    • Options and adaptations
    • Water and sanitation in Latin America
    • European Colonial military sanitation
    • ater and sanitatio in tropical Africa
    • Water and sanitation in India
    • Sanitation at Mid-Twentieth century
    • The struggle against hookworm disease
    • Early control programs
    • The Rockefeller sanitary commission for the eradication of hookworm disease
    • The Rockefeller foundation's international programs
    • The international health board (1916-27)
    • Anemia as diagnostic conundrum
    • The unset challenges of human feces disposal
    • Assessments of the hookworm campaigns
    • Era of optimism
    • Sanitary pratices: Soap, refrigeration, and screens
    • Vaccines against poliomyelitis
    • The revolution of oral rehydration therapy
    • The world health organization and sanitation initiatives
    • The first and second United Nations development decades (1960-70s)
    • The international drinking water and sanitation decade (1980's)
    • Global health and infectious intestinal disease
    • The infant formula controversy
    • The child survival revolution
    • A new campaign to eradicate poliomyelitis
    • Community-Led total sanitation
    • Open defecation and the struggle for modernity
    • Deworming the world
    • Rotavirus vaccine
    • The seventh cholera pandemic infectious intestinal disease today
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
    • Index.
    ISBN
    • 9781108493437 ((hardback))
    • 1108493432 ((hardback))
    • 9781108737067 ((pbk.))
    • 1108737064 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2019028815
    OCLC
    1121421302
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