03459nam a22004691i 4500 ebr10778506 CaPaEBR m o d cr cn||||||||| 130703t20132013ohu ob 101 0 eng d 9780821420676 (hc : alk. paper) 9780821420683 (pb : alk. paper) 9780821444719 (e-book) CaPaEBR eng rda pn CaPaEBR (OCoLC)860711534 f------ RA545 .G56 2013eb 614.4096 23 Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control / edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L. A. Webb, Jr. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2013] �2013 1 online resource (255 pages). text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier 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 / 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. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Public health Africa Congresses. Medical policy Africa Congresses. Public health International cooperation Congresses. Africa Social conditions Congresses. Electronic books. Giles-Vernick, Tamara, 1962- Webb, James L. A., Jr., 1952- Print version: Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013 viii, 246 pages Perspectives on global health 9780821420676 9780821420683 (DLC) 2013026979 ebrary. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10778506 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 131971 131971