Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control / edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L. A. Webb, Jr.
Material type: TextSeries: Perspectives on global healthPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (255 pages)Content type:- text
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"Global Health in Africa had its beginnings in 2008, at a one-day workshop at Princeton University"--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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