Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control /
edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L. A. Webb, Jr.
- 1 online resource (255 pages).
- Perspectives on global health .
"Global Health in Africa had its beginnings in 2008, at a one-day workshop at Princeton University"--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 / James L. A. Webb, Jr., and Tamara Giles-Vernick -- William H. Schneider -- James L. A. Webb, Jr -- Guillaume Lachenal -- Jennifer Tappan -- Tamara Giles-Vernick and Stephanie Rupp -- Anne Marie Moulin -- Myron Echenberg -- Michel Garenne, Alain Giami, and Christophe Perrey -- Sheryl McCurdy and Haruka Maruyama.
9780821444719 (e-book)
Public health--Africa--Congresses.
Medical policy--Africa--Congresses.
Public health--International cooperation--Congresses.
Africa--Social conditions--Congresses.
Electronic books.
RA545 / .G56 2013eb
614.4096
"Global Health in Africa had its beginnings in 2008, at a one-day workshop at Princeton University"--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 / James L. A. Webb, Jr., and Tamara Giles-Vernick -- William H. Schneider -- James L. A. Webb, Jr -- Guillaume Lachenal -- Jennifer Tappan -- Tamara Giles-Vernick and Stephanie Rupp -- Anne Marie Moulin -- Myron Echenberg -- Michel Garenne, Alain Giami, and Christophe Perrey -- Sheryl McCurdy and Haruka Maruyama.
9780821444719 (e-book)
Public health--Africa--Congresses.
Medical policy--Africa--Congresses.
Public health--International cooperation--Congresses.
Africa--Social conditions--Congresses.
Electronic books.
RA545 / .G56 2013eb
614.4096