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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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.