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1 online resource (255 pages). |
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Perspectives on global health
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"Global Health in Africa had its beginnings in 2008, at a one-day workshop at Princeton University"--Acknowledgements. |
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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. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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Public health -- Africa -- Congresses.
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Medical policy -- Africa -- Congresses.
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Public health -- International cooperation -- Congresses.
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Africa -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Giles-Vernick, Tamara, 1962-
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Webb, James L. A., Jr., 1952-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013 viii, 246 pages Perspectives on global health 9780821420676 9780821420683 (DLC) 2013026979 |
| ISBN |
9780821420676 (hc : alk. paper) |
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9780821420683 (pb : alk. paper) |
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9780821444719 (electronic bk.) |
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