Plagues and the Paradox of Progress, Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways by Bollyky, Thomas J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Preface Introduction

The Age-Old Balance between Host and Parasite Determinants of History, Agents of Human Tragedy The Different Paths to Progress Why Worry in the Age of Miracles? A Worrisome Future Is Not Inevitable

1. How the World Starts Getting Better

Death, Disease, and the Fall of Prehistoric Man The Path to Better Health in Wealthier Nations A Better World Begins as a More Unequal One

2. Diseases of Conquest and Colony

The Colonial and Military Roots of Global Health The Path to Better Health in Poorer Nations Death and Demography The Legacy of Ebola The Difference That Health Aid Makes

3. Diseases of Childhood

A Child Survival Revolution China’s Other Great Leap Forward Is Healthier Wealthier? The (Potential) Dividends of Demography Sunny in Nairobi, with a Chance of Storms Cell Phones, Not Factories The Perils of Youth

4. Diseases of Settlement

Cholera and the White Death A Simple Solution Poor World Cities The Perils of Growing Naturally Climate and the Environment The Tunis Effect Returning to Dhaka

5. Diseases of Place

The Growth Industry in Agadez, Niger People, Not Just Potatoes Migration as the History of Disease The World Is Getting Better in Worrisome Ways

6. The Exoneration of William H. Stewart

Confronting the Complex of Multiple Causation The Role of Aid in Adapting to the Decline of Infectious Diseases The Myth of the Good Epidemic

Acknowledgments Index