Kiss Of Death
by Joseph Bastien
University of Utah Press, 1998
Cloth: 978-0-87480-559-8
Library of Congress Classification RA644.C26B37 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 614.533
TOC
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapters
- 1.
- Discovering Chagas' Disease
- 2.
- Early Andean Disease
- 3.
- Jampiris and Yachajs: Andean Ethnomedicine
- 4.
- The Crawling Epidemic: Epidemiology
- 5.
- Cólico Miserere: Enlarged colon
- 6.
- Bertha: Mal de Corazon
- 7.
- Culture and Political Economy of Homes
- 8.
- Pachamama Snatched Her: Getting Involved
- 9.
- Sharing Ideas
- 10.
- Culture Context Model for Chagas' Control—Oscar Velasco, coauthor
- 11.
- Solutions
- Appendices
- 1.
- Trypanosoma cruzi
- 2.
- Strains of T. cruzi
- 3.
- Immunization against T. cruzi
- 4.
- Triatoma infestans
- 5.
- House Infestation in Bolivia
- 6.
- House Infestation in Latin America
- 7.
- Vector species of T. cruzi in the Americas
- 8.
- Hosts for T. cruzi
- 9.
- Acute Chagas' Disease
- 10.
- Chronic Heart Disease
- 11.
- Immune Response—George Stewart, coauthor
- 12.
- Diagnostic Tests
- 13.
- Chemotherapy
- 14.
- Baseline Studies in Chuquisaca
- Notes
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- References
- Index
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