Conservation Medicine

Conservation medicine is an emerging subdiscipline, focussing on the intersection of ecosystem health, animal health, and human health. As conservation biology emerged as a "crisis" discipline in the 1980s at the interface between ecology, and environmental policy and management, work in the biomedical and veterinary sciences is now being folded into conservation biology, to explore the connections between animal and human health, and trace the environmental sources of pathogens and pollutants and develop a rounded, interdisciplinary understanding of the ecological causes of changes in human and animal health, and the consequences of diseases to populations and ecological communities.

Readership: Conservation biologists, ecologists, veterinary science, public health, workers, environmental scientists.

Edited by A. Alosno Aguirre, Wildlife Preservation Trust International, Richard S. Ostfeld, Associate Scientist, Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Gary Tabor, Program Officer, The Wilberforce Foundation, Carol A. House, Editor, Center for Conservation Medicine, Tufts University College of Veterinary Medicine, and Mary Pearl, Director, Wildlife Preservation Trust International

Foreword: Giant Moths and Doing No Harm
Part I: Ecological Health and Change
1: Introduction
2: Defining Conservation Medicine
3: Conservation Medicine: The Birth of Another Crisis Discipline
4: Biodiversity, Climate Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases
5: Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Key Role for Conservation Medicine
6: Effects of Endocrine Disruptors on Human and Wildlife Health
Part II: Monitoring Ecological Health
7: Monitoring the Health and Conservation of Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles and their Ecosystems
8: Disease Monitoring for the Conservation of Terrestrial Animals
9: Emergence of Infectious Diseases in Marine Animals
10: Viruses as Evolutionary Tools to Monitor Population Dynamics
11: Assessing Stress and Population Genetics through Non-Invasive Means
12: Animal Behaviour as a Tool in Conservation Biology
Part III: Ecological Health and Humans
13: Global Ecological Health Change and Human Health
14: Biodiversity and Human Health
15: Vector Borne Infections and Health Related to Landscape Changes
16: Ecological Context of Lyme Disease: Biodiversity, Habitat Fragmentation, and Risk of Infection
17: Zoonotic Infections and Conservation
18: Chronic Impacts from Toxic Microalgae and Finfish, Shellfish and Human Health
Part IV: Implementing Conservation Medicine
19: Ecological Health and Wildlife Disease Management in National Parks
20: Wildlife Health, Ecosystems and Rural Livelihoods in Botswana
21: Zoological Parks in Endangered Species Recovery and Conservation
22: The Mountain Gorilla and Conservation Medicine
23: Linking Human and Ecosystem Health on the Amazon Frontier
24: Deer Tick-Transmitted Zoonoses in the Eastern United States
Part V: Conservation Medicine and Challenges for the Future
25: Biodiversity in Biomedical Research
26: Introducing Ecosystem Health Into Undergraduate Medical Education
27: Ecotourism: Unforseen Impacts on Health
28: Global Ecological Integrity, Global Change and Public Health
29: Wildlife Health and Environmental Security: New Challenges and Opportunities