Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Perspectives on global health Perspectives on global health.
Subject:	Public health -- Africa -- Congresses. Medical policy -- Africa -- Congresses. Public health -- International cooperation -- Congresses. Public Health -- Africa -- Congresses. Health Policy -- Africa -- Congresses. International Cooperation -- Africa -- Congresses. Social Conditions -- Africa -- Congresses. Medical policy. Public health. Public health -- International cooperation. Social conditions Africa -- Social conditions -- Congresses. Africa. Electronic books. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11208175

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Other authors / contributors:	Giles-Vernick, Tamara, 1962- editor. Webb, James L. A., Jr., 1952- editor.
ISBN:	9780821444719 0821444719 9780821420676 0821420674 9780821420683 0821420682
Notes:	"Global Health in Africa had its beginnings in 2008, at a one-day workshop at Princeton University"--Acknowledgements. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Global health in Africa 9780821420676

Table of 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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