David Quammen is the author of The Song of the Dodo, among other books. He has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is the recipient of a John Burroughs Medal and the National Magazine Award. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.
A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.
The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia—but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field—netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo—with the world’s leading disease scientists. In Spillover Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?
这本书没必要写这么长,感觉罗里吧嗦。而且书中关于SARS的记录,真的是太太太太肤浅了,直接让我怀疑了本书其他章节的准确性和真实性。书中写到“对于一个拥有13亿人口的打过来说,吃饭是个大问题,人们吃蛇不足为奇,广东人吃狗也就显得顺理成章”,这都是些啥啊。至于其他的...
评分这本书没必要写这么长,感觉罗里吧嗦。而且书中关于SARS的记录,真的是太太太太肤浅了,直接让我怀疑了本书其他章节的准确性和真实性。书中写到“对于一个拥有13亿人口的打过来说,吃饭是个大问题,人们吃蛇不足为奇,广东人吃狗也就显得顺理成章”,这都是些啥啊。至于其他的...
评分Overall, the book is pretty informative and science-based for a decent reader. By reading the book, one can learn a great deal of epidemic related knowledge. The book is sort of a page-turner itself during Covid-19 period(home-bound quarantine). I first le...
评分梁文道介绍这本书是这么说的,作者不是一个专业的科学家,但他是一个专业的作家。这其实就说得很明白了。乍听上去像是赞扬的话,只要你看过这本书,你就知道这并不完全是赞誉。 作者是著名的杂志记者,也出过书。但记者嘛——毕竟还是记者,和专业的医生或者理科生不一样。不一...
萨斯是意大利人乌尔班尼发现并命名,他牺牲了自己,拯救了苍生,他是世界卫生组织的,病发时在河内,正好在医院去救一位香港去河内的美籍华人,感染上SARS之后,在河内过世了。
评分强烈推荐!作为科学的门外汉却总对纯粹的科学研究感到有意思。书中举了不少例子, 个个骨肉丰满且语言风趣,一点不觉得枯燥。而zoonosis的产生和传播也使人类必须反思自己的行为,因为并不存在“nature world”,我们和病毒都生活在一个世界。如果不约束自己的行为无节制的侵犯, 将有更多的病毒在进化机制下变成zoonosis.
评分bonechilling. illuminating. what Hot Zone would wanted but never could've be. great relevance in light of recent Ebola outbreak. solid research.
评分有一部分写得好,但很大一部分都是在讲故事,没太多科学的东西
评分在家抗疫的手边书,信息丰富,笔触生动幽默,在亚马逊和Goodreads网站都有4+的高分。SARS一段写得宛如犯罪小说,“猴与河”更有一段文艺兮兮的独木舟漂流记,尾声把人口爆发类比成outbreak真是当头棒喝。这也许让自诩硬核的读者心生鄙夷,但整本书的趣味性和可读性极佳,作为科普真的是太好了。
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