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Published in: EcoHealth 2/2017

01-06-2017 | Book Reviews

The Sage of Canberra: Tony McMichael on Climate, History, and Health

Author: Howard Frumkin

Published in: EcoHealth | Issue 2/2017

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Excerpt

Imagine a sweeping history of human health in relation to the environmental influences (especially climate) that shaped us. Imagine that the book was written by a crack team that included an epidemiologist, a physician, an historian, a cultural anthropologist, a paleontologist, a climatologist, a geologist, and an evolutionary biologist. …
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Ó Gráda C. Famine: A Short History. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press; 2009.
Hsiang SM, Burke M, Miguel E. Quantifying the influence of climate on human conflict. Science 2013;341:1235367.CrossRefPubMed
Metadata
Title
The Sage of Canberra: Tony McMichael on Climate, History, and Health
Author
Howard Frumkin
Publication date
01-06-2017
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
EcoHealth / Issue 2/2017
Print ISSN: 1612-9202
Electronic ISSN: 1612-9210
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-017-1232-2

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