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COLUMBUS AND THE NEW WORLD:
MEDICAL IMPLICATIONS

Edited by: Guy A. Settipane, M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

This new international book is unique in that modern medical knowledge was used to answer the many puzzling questions about diseases that devastated the Native American Indians (Amerindians). For example, why were the Amerindians so susceptible to European childhood diseases? Why were these diseases so severe as to cause millions of Amerindians to die? What were these diseases? How were they transmitted to the Native American Indians? What diseases did the Indians introduce to the Europeans? What role did swine influenza play?

The new techniques of HLA tissue typing have enabled us to analyze the genetics of present day Amerindians. Did the incorporation of new genetic material from the old world enable the Native Indians to fight infections better? What percentage of the present day Indian population have European, Oriental, and African HLA blood and tissue types?

In this book we have gathered some of the world's great medical specialists to help answer these questions. These specialists include health scientists from Mexico, Ecuador, France, Belgium, Canada and the U.S.A. Three of the United States authors are from the national Institute of Health at Bethesda, Maryland. One author is the Minister of Public Health of Ecuador (Plutarco Naranjo, M.D.). The opinions and conclusions from these experts are based on the best scientific knowledge available today.

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"...I have been using as a textbook The Colombian Exchange by Crossby, for the last four years. However, I have been looking for a book with information that students could apply better. I think this book provides the (reader) not only with the historical context but also with he legacy of the exchange in our present times... We will adapt this excellent book as one of the textbooks for the course, Columbus and His Time."

·  History and Honors Program, Atlantic Union College

"...One need not be a professional historian or medical specialist to find enjoyment in its provocative detail, tantalizing illustrations and illuminating discussions of unusual topics."

·  Providence Journal, October 19, 1995

COLUMBUS AND THE NEW WORLD: MEDICAL IMPLICATIONS
Edited by: Guy A. Settipane, M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

148 pages, Hardcover, MLA797
36 illustrations
1995

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$49.50 (outside U.S.A. $79.50)
ISBN 0-936587-07-5

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