Cholera: the killer from the deep: A paradigm for waterborne disease
Author(s) -
Rita R. Colwell
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the biochemist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1740-1194
pISSN - 0954-982X
DOI - 10.1042/bio02701023
Subject(s) - multidisciplinary approach , cholera , paradigm shift , infectious disease (medical specialty) , engineering ethics , perspective (graphical) , balance (ability) , disease , environmental ethics , political science , medicine , sociology , computer science , social science , biology , engineering , virology , epistemology , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , philosophy , pathology
The current international attention to the importance of combating infectious diseases can provide the opportunity for a multidisciplinary approach that joins medicine with many other scientific and technological disciplines. Science and technology are major forces that have the potential to balance the world's inequities. The connection between cholera and the environment provides a paradigm for this perspective.
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