Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control / edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L. A. Webb, Jr.
2013
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Uniform Title
Ebrary electronic monographs.
Title
Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control / edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L. A. Webb, Jr.
Imprint
Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013.
Description
1 online resource (255 pages).
Series
Perspectives on global health.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Note
"Global Health in Africa had its beginnings in 2008, at a one-day workshop at Princeton University"--Acknowledgements.
Local Note
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013 viii, 246 pages Perspectives on global health
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Language
English
ISBN
9780821444719 e-book
9780821420676 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
9780821420683 (pb) (alkaline paper)
9780821420676 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
9780821420683 (pb) (alkaline paper)
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