Research Catalog

Title

Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control / edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L. A. Webb, Jr.

Publication

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Giles-Vernick, Tamara, 1962-
• Webb, James L. A., Jr., 1952-

Description

viii, 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Perspectives on global health

Uniform Title

Perspectives on global health.

Subject

• Public health > Africa > Congresses
• Medical policy > Africa > Congresses
• Public health > International cooperation > Congresses
• Public Health > Africa > Congresses
• Communicable Disease Control > history > Africa > Congresses
• International Cooperation > Congresses
• Africa > Social conditions > Congresses

Note

• "Global Health in Africa had its beginnings in 2008, at a one-day workshop at Princeton University"--Acknowledgements.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

Sc E 14-135

ISBN

• 9780821420676 (hc : alk. paper)
• 0821420674 (hc : alk. paper)
• 9780821420683 (pb : alk. paper)
• 0821420682 (pb : alk. paper)
• 9780821444719 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
• 0821444719 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013026979

OCLC

847837262

Title

Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control / edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L. A. Webb, Jr.

Publisher

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Perspectives on global health

Perspectives on global health.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Giles-Vernick, Tamara, 1962- editor.

Webb, James L. A., Jr., 1952- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 14-135