Global environmental degradation and biodiversity loss: implications for human health / Eric Chivian -- Earthly dominion: population growth, biodiversity, and health / Robert Engelman -- Biodiversity and emerging infectious diseases: integrating health and ecosystem monitoring / Paul R. Epstein, Andrew Dobson, and John Vandermeer -- Fatal synergisms: interactions between infectious diseases, human population growth, and loss of biodiversity / Andrew Dobson, Mary S. Campbell, and Jensa Bell -- Biodiversity loss in and around agroecosystems / John Vandermeer --

The origins of prescription drugs / Francesca Grifo [et al.] -- Natural products for the treatment of infectious diseases / Catherine A. Laughlin and Alexandra S. Fairfield -- Capturing the chemical value of biodiversity: economic perspectives and policy prescriptions / Anthony Artuso -- Indigenous peoples and conservation / Paul Alan Cox -- Medicinal plants for healing the planet: biodiversity and environmental health care / Robert S. McCaleb --

Returning benefits from ethnobotanical drug discovery to native communities / Katy Moran -- A paradigm for the equitable sharing of benefits resulting from biodiversity research and development / Thomas D. Mays [et al.] -- Integrating drug discovery, biodiversity conservation, and economic development: early lessons from the international cooperative biodiversity groups / Joshua Rosenthal -- Causes and consequences of biodiversity loss: liquidation of natural capital and biodiversity resource development in Costa Rica

Daniel H. Janzen -- Sustainable use of biodiversity: myths, realities, and potential / Charles M. Peters -- Opportunities for collaboration between the biomedical and conservation communities / Walter V. Reid -- Afterword: a proposal for a national council on biodiversity and human health / Byron J. Bailey and John T. Grupenhoff.