Evolution of Infectious Disease

Paul W. Ewald is a professor and Chair of the Biology Department at Amherst College, and holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has been named the first George E. Burch Fellow of Theoretic Medicine and Affiliated Sciences, a position awarded by the Smithsonian Institution and hosted by the Smithsonian Tropical Institute.

1. Why this book? ; 2. Symptomatic Treatment (or How to Bind the The Origin of Species to The Physician's Desk Reference ; 3. Vectors, Vertical Transmission, and the Evolution of Virulence ; 4. How to be Severe Without Vectors ; 5. When Water Moves Like a Mosquito ; 6. Attendant-Borne Transmission (or How are Doctors and Nurses like Mosquitos, Machetes, and Moving Water?) ; 7. War and Disease ; 8. AIDS: Where Did it Come from and Where is it Going? ; 9. The Fight against AIDS: Biomedical Strategies and HIV's Evolutionary Responses ; 10. A Look Backward ... ; 11. ... and a Glimpse Forward (Or Who Needs Darwin?) ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; Index