There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international, economic, political and environmental context, this unique book expands these issues by reviving...

The fourth edition of this well received book provides an authoritative and up-to-date resource to support good practice in travel medicine, a field that has evolved substantially in recent years. Concretely, there has been intensified monitoring of health problems among travelers, as well as extensive research efforts, which have led to the development of evidence-based approaches to the field.The book includes expert recommendations regarding e.g. immunizations, malaria prophylax...

Michael Kardinal von Faulhaber führte als Erzbischof von München und Freising zwischen 1917 und 1952 akribisch Tagebuch. Die einzigartigen Aufzeichnungen erlauben tiefe Einblicke in seinen Alltag und seine unzähligen Gespräche in einer Zeit dramatischer Umbrüche: von der Monarchie über die Weimarer Republik und die NS-Diktatur bis hin zur Besatzungsherrschaft und den Anfängen der Bonner Republik. Wie ließen sich die rasanten politischen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen mit der Vorstell...