Introduction. Making Evidence-Based Global Health in Africa -- The Scientific Object: Becoming the Right Tool for the Job -- The BiomedicalTechnology: From Kenyan Particulars to Global Universals -- The Technology of Neoliberal Policy: Taking Insecticide-Treated Nets to Market -- The Global Health Commodity: Selling the Value of Saving Lives -- The Domestic Technology: Making Healthy Homes in Kenya -- Conclusion. Lessons for Global Health and Malaria Control in a Precarious Age
Summary
"This book tracks the life history of insecticide-treated nets to explain how and why this technology became a cornerstone of global malaria control in the twenty first century"-- Provided by publisher