Biodiversity And Human Health; Editor: Grifo, Francesca; Editor: Rosenthal, Joshua; Hardback; Book

Editor: Grifo, Francesca; Editor: Rosenthal, Joshua
Hardback; Book
350 pages
Published: June 1996
Island Press
ISBN: 1559635010
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Biodiversity and Human Health brings together leading thinkers on the global environment and biomedicine to explore the human health consequences of the loss of biological diversity. Contributors discuss the uses and significance of biodiversity to the practice of medicine today, and develop strategies for conservation of these critical resources.Experts on the global environment and biomedicine explore the human health consequences of the loss of biological diversity and its deleterious effects the spread of human diseases, supplies of raw materials for drug discovery, food and water quality. Contains sections on causes and consequences of