This book deals with infectious diseases -- viral, bacterial, protozoan and helminth -- in terms of the dynamics of their interaction with host populations. The book combines mathematical models with extensive use of epidemiological and other data. This analytic framework is highly useful for the evaluation of public health strategies aimed at controlling or eradicating particular infections. Such a framework is increasingly important in light of the widespread concern for primary health care programs aimed at such diseases as measles, malaria, river blindness, sleeping sickness, and schistosomiasis, and the advent of AIDS/HIV and other emerging viruses. Throughout the book, the mathematics is used as a tool for thinking clearly about fundamental and applied problems having to do with infectious diseases. The book is divided into two parts, one dealing with microparasites (viruses, bacteria and protozoans) and the other with macroparasites (helminths and parasitic arthropods). Each part begins with simple models, developed in a biologically intuitive way, and then goes on to develop more complicated and realistic models as tools for public health planning. The book synthesizes previous work in this rapidly growing field (much of which is scattered between the ecological and the medical literature) with a good deal of new material.

Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control (Oxford Science Publications)

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May, Robert M.

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Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press, USA

This book deals with infectious diseases -- viral, bacterial, protozoan and helminth -- in terms of the dynamics of their interaction with host populations. The book combines mathematical models with extensive use of epidemiological and other data. This analytic framework is highly useful for the evaluation of public health strategies aimed at controlling or eradicating particular infections. Such a framework is increasingly important in light of the widespread concern for primary health care programs aimed at such diseases as measles, malaria, river blindness, sleeping sickness, and schistosomiasis, and the advent of AIDS/HIV and other emerging viruses. Throughout the book, the mathematics is used as a tool for thinking clearly about fundamental and applied problems having to do with infectious diseases. The book is divided into two parts, one dealing with microparasites (viruses, bacteria and protozoans) and the other with macroparasites (helminths and parasitic arthropods). Each part begins with simple models, developed in a biologically intuitive way, and then goes on to develop more complicated and realistic models as tools for public health planning. The book synthesizes previous work in this rapidly growing field (much of which is scattered between the ecological and the medical literature) with a good deal of new material.

Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control

Medical Books

Medicine

Oxford University Press

The description for this book, Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems. (MPB-6), will be forthcoming.

Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems. (MPB-6) (Monographs in Population Biology, 6)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Princeton University Press

Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems (Monographs in Population Biology, No. 6)

What makes populations stabilize? What makes them fluctuate? Are populations in complex ecosystems more stable than populations in simple ecosystems? In 1973, Robert May addressed these questions in this classic book. May investigated the mathematical roots of population dynamics and argued-counter to most current biological thinking-that complex ecosystems in themselves do not lead to population stability. Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems played a key role in introducing nonlinear mathematical models and the study of deterministic chaos into ecology, a role chronicled in James Gleick's book Chaos. In the quarter century since its first publication, the book's message has grown in power. Nonlinear models are now at the center of ecological thinking, and current threats to biodiversity have made questions about the role of ecosystem complexity more crucial than ever. In a new introduction, the author addresses some of the changes that have swept biology and the biological world since the book's first publication.

Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems (Princeton Landmarks in Biology)

Physicians of the soul: The psychologies of the world's great spiritual teachers

Crossroad

Physicians of the Soul: The Psychologies of the World's Great Spiritual Teachers

Self-Help

Element Books Ltd.

Combining scholarship &amp; spiritual depth, May portrays the development of the modern shift in the paradigm of human consciousness. He writes of the importance of the work of Richard Bucke, the father of Western Spiritual psychology, &amp; the author of the landmark book, ''Cosmic Consciousness''. He then proceeds to trace the subsequent development of the emerging spiritual &amp; transpersonal psychologies &amp; relates their evolution to the great spiritual traditions as well as to the future direction of human spiritual &amp; psychological evolution. Of interest to all who seek to gain a contemporary &amp; forward looking understanding of the spiritual nature of human existence.

Cosmic Consciousness Revisited: The Modern Origins and Development of a Western Spiritual Psychology

Religion & Spirituality

In this totally revised and expanded edition of PHYSICIANS OF THE SOUL, Robert May examines how the greatest spiritual teachers of the world’s religions serve as guides to the greatest human adventure: the quest for wisdom and the inner search for Self.

Religious Studies

White Cloud Pr

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