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David Waltner-Toews (born 1948) is a Canadian epidemiologist, essayist, poet, fiction writer, veterinarian, and a specialist in the epidemiology of food and waterborne diseases, zoonoses and ecosystem health. He is best known for his work on animal and human infectious diseases in relation to complexity. A professor in the Department of Population Medicine at the University of Guelph, he is the founding president of Veterinarians without Borders/ Vétérinaires sans Frontières, and founding president of the Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health. Besides about 100 peer-reviewed scholarly papers and a textbook (''Ecosystem Sustainability and Health: a practical approach'', Cambridge, 2004), he has published half a dozen books of poetry, a collection of poems and recipes, an award-winning collection of short stories (''One Foot in Heaven''), a murder mystery (''Fear of Landing'') and a book about the natural history of diseases people get from animals (''The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases that Jump from Animals to Humans''). In 2011 he collaborated with artist Diane Maclean on her exhibition ''Bird'' at Killhope North of England Lead Mining Museum, contributing a new poem, ''The Love Song of the Javanese Singing Cock''〔(England's highest gallery stages an ace show - the Guardian )〕 ==Books== * ''The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty and Managing for Sustainability (with James Kay and Nina-Marie Lister)'' * ''Ecosystem Sustainability and Health: a practical approach'' * ''Food, Sex and Salmonella: Why Our Food Is Making Us Sick'' * ''The Earth is One Body'' * ''Good Housekeeping'' * ''The Fat Lady Struck Dumb'' * ''One Foot in Heaven'' * ''Fear of Landing'' * ''The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases that Jump from Animals to Humans'' * ''One Animal Among Many: Gaia, Goats and Garlic'' * ''The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Waltner-Toews」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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