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Cold war, deadly fevers : malaria eradication in Mexico, 1955-1975

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Cold war, deadly fevers : malaria eradication in Mexico, 1955-1975 / Marcos Cueto.

Author

Cueto, Marcos.

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Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2007.

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xvi, 264 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-251) and index.

Contents

Figures and tables -- Preface and acknowledgments -- A note on sources -- 1. Introduction : The burden of an infection -- The origins and development of malaria control efforts -- Organizing principles for this volume -- Plan of the book -- 2. Global designs -- Foreign aid and the Cold War -- International health cooperation -- The encounter of international health and politics -- Concluding thoughts -- 3. National decisions -- Mexican politics and medicine -- Mexican malaria control -- Organizing malaria eradication -- The Mexicanization of the campaign -- 4. Local responses -- Intercultural challenges -- Anthropological critique -- A provincial doctor rebels -- Indigenous resistance -- A campaign in decline -- 5. Conclusions : The return of malaria and the culture of survival -- Mexico's recent experience with malaria -- The lessons of malaria eradication : patterns of vertical health program -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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