Global health in Africa : : historical perspectives on disease control / / edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L. A. Webb, Jr.

• TeilnehmendeR: Giles-Vernick, Tamara, 1962-; Webb, James L. A., Jr., 1952-
• Place / Publishing House: Athens, Ohio : : Ohio University Press,, [2013]; 2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on global health
• 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction / James L. A. Webb, Jr., and Tamara Giles-Vernick -- The long history of smallpox eradication : lessons for global health in Africa / William H. Schneider -- The first large-scale use of synthetic insecticide to control malaria in tropical Africa : lessons from Liberia, 1945-62 / James L. A. Webb, Jr -- A genealogy of treatment as prevention (TasP) : prevention, therapy, and the tensions of public health in Africa / Guillaume Lachenal -- The true fiasco : the treatment and prevention of severe acute malnutrition in Uganda, 1950-74 / Jennifer Tappan -- People, great apes, disease, and global health in the northern forests of equatorial Africa / Tamara Giles-Vernick and Stephanie Rupp -- Defenseless bodies and violent afflictions in a global world : blood, iatrogenesis, and hepatitis C transmission in Egypt / Anne Marie Moulin -- "Snake in the belly" : Africa's unhappy experience with cholera during the seventh pandemic, 1971 to the present / Myron Echenberg -- Male circumcision and HIV control in Africa : questioning scientific evidence and the decision-making process / Michel Garenne, Alain Giami, and Christophe Perrey -- Heroin use, trafficking, and intervention approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa : local and global contexts / Sheryl McCurdy and Haruka Maruyama.