Overview
- Depicts parasite and disease spread along the world´s longest trade route
- Promotes interdisciplinary and cross-national disease research
- Connects medicine to palaeoparasitology and cultural history
Part of the book series: Parasitology Research Monographs (Parasitology Res. Monogr., volume 17)
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About this book
Through its interdisciplinary character this book will be enjoyed by interested readers from the fields of parasitology and palaeoparasitology, medical sciences and public health, as well as cultural history.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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The Silk Roads: Past and Future
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Parasite and Disease Spread Along the Silk Roads: A Review to Date
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Zhongdao Wu, PhD is an internationally well known Professor of human parasitology at the Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, China. He is engaged in research projects on prevention and control of parasitic diseases such as snail-borne parasitic diseases as well as schistosomiasis, liver fluke, as well as mosquito-borne diseases. He has also participated in multiple international cooperation projects and thus visited countries such as Niger, Zanzibar, Nepal, Thailand, Pakistan, Laos, etc. to exchange ideas on parasitic disease prevention and control. As teacher he is engaged in the Medical school, where he also has trained many graduate students and doctors from the Belt and Road countries thus spreading important knowledge.
Dr. Xiaoying Wu has received her Ph.D. at the School of Public Health at the Sun Yat-sen University. She studied at the University of Birmingham (UK) and completed her postdoctoral work at the School of Public Health at Fudan University. Currently, she is employed at the Department of Gastroenterology at the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. Her primary research focus is on clinical epidemiology of chronic and infectious inflammatory diseases. Dr. Wu led a graduate research team conducting a three-year field epidemiological investigation in the schistosomiasis japonica endemic areas in China, and established a cohort of patients with advanced schistosomiasis japonica. She also participated in teaching the clinical eight-year program course "Tropical Diseases and Global Health". In addition Dr. Wu is a member of the Health Data and Digital Medicine Branch of the ChinaInternational Exchange and Promotive Association for Medical and Health Care.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Infectious Diseases along the Silk Roads
Book Subtitle: The Spread of Parasitoses and Culture Past and Today
Editors: Heinz Mehlhorn, Xiaoying Wu, Zhongdao Wu
Series Title: Parasitology Research Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35275-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35274-4Published: 20 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35277-5Published: 21 September 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-35275-1Published: 19 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2192-3671
Series E-ISSN: 2192-368X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 174
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Parasitology, Medicine/Public Health, general, Paleoecology, Cultural History, Public Health