Health and Disease: An Evolutionary Struggle

The following sections are included:

• In Sickness and in Health

• The Black Death: An European Catastrophe

• Knowing the Enemy: Pathogens

• Prions: The Unexpected Pathogens

• The Immune System and Human Resistance To Disease

• Strengthening the Defences

• Vaccines: Training the Immune System

• Antibiotics: The Fallible Defence

• Antibiotic Resistance: An Evolutionary Fight

• Changing Patterns of Disease

• The Health and Wealth of Nations

• Influenza: The Perennial Threat

• The Influenza Virus

• The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Pandemic

• The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

• HIV Treatment and Control

• The Origin of the HIV

• Tuberculosis: “The Captain of AH These Men of Death”

• Malaria: A Mosquito Borne Tropical Scourge

• Defences Against Malaria

• Re-emerging and New Pathogens

• Cancer: The Global Nemesis

• The Causes of Cancer

• The Fight Against Cancer

• Ageing: Causes and Consequences

• Future Patterns of Health

• Climate Change: An Agent for Changing Disease Patterns

• Biological Warfare: The Great Betrayal

• References