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Title Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control / edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L.A. Webb, Jr
Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Perspectives on global health
Perspectives on global health.
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
Summary Global Health in Africa is a first exploration of selected histories of global health initiatives in Africa. The collection addresses some of the most important interventions in disease control, including mass vaccination, large-scale treatment and/or prophylaxis campaigns, harm reduction efforts, and nutritional and virological research. The chapters in this collection are organized in three sections that evaluate linkages between past, present, and emergent. Part I, "Looking Back," contains four chapters that analyze colonial-era interventions and reflect upon their implications for contempo
Notes "Global Health in Africa had its beginnings in 2008, at a one-day workshop at Princeton University"--Acknowledgements
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Public health -- Africa -- Congresses
Medical policy -- Africa -- Congresses
Public health -- International cooperation -- Congresses
Public health.
Medical policy.
International cooperation.
Social history.
Public Health
Health Policy
International Cooperation
Social Conditions
public health.
social history.
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
Social history
International cooperation
Medical policy
Public health
Public health -- International cooperation
Social conditions
Medizinische Versorgung
Gesundheitswesen
SUBJECT Africa -- Social conditions -- Congresses
Africa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001531
Africa https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000349
Subject Africa
Afrika
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Giles-Vernick, Tamara, 1962- editor.
Webb, James L. A., Jr., 1952- editor.
LC no. 2013026979
ISBN 9780821444719
0821444719