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Author Moore-Sheeley, Kirsten, 1989- author.

Title Nothing but nets : a biography of global health science and its objects / Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (x, 231 pages)
Contents Introduction. Making Evidence-Based Global Health in Africa -- The Scientific Object: Becoming the Right Tool for the Job -- The Biomedical Technology: 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Public health -- Citizen participation -- History -- 21st century
Public health -- Africa -- Citizen participation
Mosquitoes -- Control -- History
Malaria -- Prevention -- History -- 21st century
Mosquitoes -- Control -- Africa -- History
Malaria -- Africa -- Prevention -- History -- 21st century
Insecticide-treated mosquito nets -- History
MEDICAL / Public Health.
Mosquitoes -- Control.
Malaria -- Prevention.
Insecticide-treated mosquito nets.
Africa.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1421447584
9781421447582