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Travel medicine tales behind the science

Annelies Wilder-Smith; Eli Schwartz Dr.; Marc Shaw

Amsterdam Elsevier Boston 2007

Localização: EACH - Esc. Artes, Ciências e Humanidades    (616.9802 T779 )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Travel medicine tales behind the science
  • Autor: Annelies Wilder-Smith; Eli Schwartz Dr.; Marc Shaw
  • Assuntos: Travel -- Health aspects; Travel; Communicable Disease Control; Immunization; Touristikmedizin; Tropenmedizin; TURISMO (ASPECTOS SANITÁRIOS); VIAGENS (ASPECTOS SANITÁRIOS); MEDICINA; TURISTAS; SAÚDE PÚBLICA; CONTROLE DE DOENÇAS TRANSMISSÍVEIS; Geschichte
  • Notas: Referências e índice
  • Descrição: List of figures and maps -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction / Section 1 : History of travel medicine -- History of the development of travel medicine as a new discipline / Section 2 : Education in travel medicine -- Education in travel medicine / Gorgas Course : learning travel medicine while traveling / ten commandments for healthy tropical travel / Section 3 : Evolution of travel vaccines -- Routine vaccinations and travel / Recommended travel vaccines : from "travel vaccine" to universal vaccination - the hepatitis A story / Required travel vaccinations : yellow fever - the disease and the vaccine / Remote travel vaccines : the undulating fortunes of typhoid vaccines / Dodging the bullet : preventing rabies among international travelers /
    Section 4 : Malaria drugs and infections of adventure -- Barking up the right trees? : malaria drugs from Cinchona to Qing Hao / Infections of adventure and leisure / Section 5 : Personal tales : travel medicine practitioners share their stories -- Final log : Amazonas adventure / Tales from the mountains / Confessions of a "reality TV" doc / Tomb raider's crew doctor / woman atop the crocodile : Newton's law in Africa / Section 6 : Tales behind the research in travel medicine -- Borneo Eco-Challenge : GeoSentinel and rapid global sharing of disease outbreak information / Understanding malaria prophylaxis : lessons learned on the Omo River, Ethiopia / Travelers' diarrhea : tales from Mexico / history of the CIWEC clinic in Kathmandu, Nepal / History of Cyclospora at the CIWEC clinic, Nepal / Meningococcal disease and the Hajj pilgrimage / Too high too fast : experiences at high altitude / pleasures and perils of traveling with young children / Mongolian expedition / Evacuation of travelers : personal anecdotes, pearls and conclusions /
    Section 7 : Traveling for a cause -- Globalization, migration and health : the history of disease and disparity in the global village / Stories of undocumented migrants to the USA / Between crossing boundaries and respecting norms : the story of African women labor-migrants to Israel / Humanitarian care in Haiti and Rwanda / Muslim pilgrimage / Pilgrimages of Christianity / Hindu pilgrimages / Pilgrimages in the high Himalayas / Section 8 : when diseases travel -- Cholera : a travel history of the first modern pandemic / Role of armies in spreading epidemics : vector and victim / Spread of disease in the 20th century and lessons for the 21st century / As travel medicine practitioner during the SARS outbreak in Singapore / What does the travel medicine practitioner need to know about the international health regulations? / Section 9 : Epilogue -- look into the future : space travel / Subject index
  • Títulos relacionados: Série:Advances in tourism research series.
  • Editor: Amsterdam Elsevier Boston
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2007
  • Formato: xx, 333 p. ill., maps, ports. 24 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês
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