Global health in Africa : : historical perspectives on disease control / / edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L. A. Webb, Jr.
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Place / Publishing House: | Athens, Ohio : : Ohio University Press,, [2013] 2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Perspectives on global health
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (255 pages). |
Notes: | "Global Health in Africa had its beginnings in 2008, at a one-day workshop at Princeton University"--Acknowledgements. |
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Other title: | Introduction / The long history of smallpox eradication : lessons for global health in Africa / The first large-scale use of synthetic insecticide to control malaria in tropical Africa : lessons from Liberia, 1945-62 / A genealogy of treatment as prevention (TasP) : prevention, therapy, and the tensions of public health in Africa / The true fiasco : the treatment and prevention of severe acute malnutrition in Uganda, 1950-74 / People, great apes, disease, and global health in the northern forests of equatorial Africa / Defenseless bodies and violent afflictions in a global world : blood, iatrogenesis, and hepatitis C transmission in Egypt / "Snake in the belly" : Africa's unhappy experience with cholera during the seventh pandemic, 1971 to the present / Male circumcision and HIV control in Africa : questioning scientific evidence and the decision-making process / Heroin use, trafficking, and intervention approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa : local and global contexts / |
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Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780821420676 (hc : alk. paper) 9780821420683 (pb : alk. paper) 9780821444719 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L. A. Webb, Jr. |