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"This edited volume brings together natural scientists, social scientists and humanists to assess if (or how) we may begin to coexist harmoniously with the mosquito. The mosquito is humanity's deadliest animal, killing over a million people each year by transmitting malaria, yellow fever, Zika and several other diseases. Yet of the 3500 species of mosquito on earth, only a few dozen of them are really dangerous-so that the question arises as to whether humans and their mosquito foe can learn to live peacefully with one another. Chapters assess polarizing arguments for conserving and preserving mosquitoes, as well as for controlling and killing them, elaborating on possible consequences of both strategies. This book provides informed answers to the dual question: could we eliminate mosquitoes, and should we? Offering insights spanning the technical to the philosophical, this is the 'go to' book for exploring humanity's many relationships with the mosquito-which becomes a journey to finding better ways to inhabit the natural world. Mosquitopia will be of interest to anyone wanting to explore dependencies between human health and natural systems, while offering novel perspectives to health planners, medical experts, environmentalists and animal rights advocates"--.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Part I Could we (should we) eliminate mosquitoes?
  • Chapter 1 Killing mosquitoes: Think before you swat
  • Chapter 2 The mosquito: An introduction
  • Chapter 3 Understanding multispecies mobilities: From mosquito eradication to coexistence
• Part II Learning from experience
  • Chapter 4 The long arc of mosquito control
  • Chapter 5 Domesticated Mosquitoes: Colonization and the growth of mosquito habitats in North America
  • Chapter 6 Could we/should we eradicate mosquitoes?: The case of the yellow fever vector1
  • Chapter 7 Fighting nuisance on the northern fringe: Controlling mosquitoes in Britain between the World Wars
• Part III Know thy enemy
  • Chapter 8 The mosquito and malaria: Would mosquito control alone eliminate the disease?
  • Chapter 9 Living with mosquitoes in disease-free contexts: Attitudes and perceptions of risk in English wetlands
  • Chapter 10 AweWonderExcitement
• Part IV Know thyself
  • Chapter 11 Enacting politics with mosquitoes: Beyond eradication and control
  • Chapter 12 Eradication against ambivalence
  • Chapter 13 The innocent mosquito?: The environmental ethics of mosquito eradication
• Part V Improving human–mosquito relationships
  • Chapter 14 Mosquito control: Success, failure and expectations in the context of arbovirus expansion and emergence
  • Chapter 15 Designer mosquitoes?: Prospects and precautions of genome-edited insects for public health
  • Chapter 16 The Mosquitome: A new frontier for sustainable vector control
  • Chapter 17 Mosquito utopias and dystopias: A dispatch from the front lines
• Afterword
• Index