David Waltner-Toews
Autore di The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us about Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society
Sull'Autore
David Waltner-Toews is a renowned epidemiologist, veterinarian, specialist in One Health and EcoHealth, and multi-award-winning author of more than twenty books, including textbooks, nonfiction books about science and health, murder mysteries, and poetry and short story collections.
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1948
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Attività lavorative
- university professor emeritus
veterinary surgeon
poet - Organizzazioni
- Veterinarians without Borders
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- 0rder of Canada, Officer
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- Opere
- 16
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 207
- Popolarità
- #106,920
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 54
- Lingue
- 1
If you’re looking for a book that talks about the people and the steps taken during a pandemic, this isn’t it. The book is firmly rooted in the biology and transmission of zoonoses. Waltner-Toews clearly has a lot of knowledge and experience in this field, much of it pertaining to animals (which makes sense because they are the ones transmitting these diseases to humans). For me, I’m not as interested in the animal vectors except that they exist. There is also a reasonable amount of microbiology in this book, which is rather dry at times. The author has a considerable amount of wit and certainly isn’t afraid to put his ideas, including politics and religion forward. More humour may have improved this book for me, particularly after a day of living the pandemic reality. At times, it was too dry to hold my interest. At others, it was fascinating. The problem for me was that I didn’t know what I was going to get each night, which led to me not picking up the book and watching Netflix…
I think if you’re looking for a general education on zoonoses this would be of interest. But although these micro-organisms can and have caused epidemics and pandemics, this book is not focused on the human response. I feel the title is misleading to the lay reader and the original title would have sufficed for the second edition.
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