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David Waltner-Toews (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).

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Total Books: 20
On Pandemics Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus
Eat the Beetles An Exploration of Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects
The Origin of Feces What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution Ecology and a Sustainable Society
The Ecosystem Approach Complexity Uncertainty and Managing for Sustainability
2008 - The Ecosystem Approach Complexity Uncertainty and Managing for Sustainability [Complexity in Ecological Systems] (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780231132503
ISBN-10: 0231132506
Genre: Science & Math
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The Ecosystem Approach Complexity Uncertainty and Managing for Sustainability
2008 - The Ecosystem Approach Complexity Uncertainty and Managing for Sustainability [Complexity in Ecological Systems] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780231132510
ISBN-10: 0231132514
Genres: Business & Money, Science & Math, Engineering & Transportation
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems
2008 - Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems [Advances in Agroecology] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781420072778
ISBN-10: 1420072773
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Fear of Landing
2008 - Fear of Landing (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781590583500
ISBN-10: 1590583507
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Food Sex and Salmonella Why Our Food Is Making Us Sick
Fear of Landing
2007 - Fear of Landing (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781590583494
ISBN-10: 1590583493
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Chickens Fight Back Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases That Jump from Animals to Humans
One Foot in Heaven
2005 - One Foot in Heaven (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781550503128
ISBN-10: 155050312X
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Ecosystem Sustainability and Health A Practical Approach
Ecosystem Sustainability and Health A Practical Approach
2004 - Ecosystem Sustainability and Health a Practical Approach (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780521824781
ISBN-10: 0521824788
Genre: Science & Math
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The Complete Tante Tina Mennonite Blues and Recipes
2004 - The Complete Tante Tina Mennonite Blues and Recipes (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781894710527
ISBN-10: 1894710525
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Good housekeeping
1983 - Good Housekeeping (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780888010810
ISBN-10: 0888010818
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The Impossible Uprooting  Poems
The Impossible Uprooting Poems (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780771087837
ISBN-10: 0771087837
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The earth is one body
The Earth Is One Body [Poetry series one] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780888010179
ISBN-10: 0888010176
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Food Sex  Salmonella
Food Sex Salmonella (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781550210682
ISBN-10: 1550210688
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Medicine
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The Fat Lady Struck Dumb
The Fat Lady Struck Dumb (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781894078122
ISBN-10: 1894078128
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