Global disease eradication : the race for the last child /
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| Author / Creator: | Needham, Cynthia, 1946- |
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2003. |
| Description: | vii, 196 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4915937 |
Table of Contents:
- Eradication: a Prologue
- Malaria and the Magic Bullet
- Two Children
- Swamps, Farms, and Bad Air
- Escalating Pressure
- Learning from the Past: Hard Lessons, Hard Work
- Biology Plays Its Hand
- Social Issues Loom Large
- Fatal Inflexibility: One Plan To Fit All
- The Price of Failure
- Forward to the Present
- Magic Bullets
- Smallpox: the Right Disease, the Right Time
- Fading Scars
- From Golden Needles to Vaccine
- Moving Toward Control
- Thinking about Eradication
- Commitment, Evolution, Success
- Smallpox Zero
- The Smallpox Dividend
- Polio: the Rise and Fall of a Disease
- Biologic Realities
- The Invisible Disease
- The Clearing Picture
- President Roosevelt's Other War
- The Needs of the World
- Brazil's Attack
- Coming to America
- Going Global
- Measures of Success - or Failure
- The End Game
- The Future for Global Disease Eradication
- Biologic Feasibility
- Financial Resources
- Political Will
- Social Benefit
- The Next Campaign
- Epilogue: Voices from the Eradication Campaigns
- Christopher Plowe and Abdoulaye Djimde: Malaria Warriors
- Donald Ainslie Henderson: Politics and Public Health
- William Foege: Legacy of the Smallpox Campaign
- Sharon Bloom: When Politics Are Local
- Phillip Spradling: from Primary Care to the Mountains of Nepal
- Kathy Kohler: Fulfilling a Dream
- Alice Pope: a Passion for People
- Duane Kilgus: from Desk to Desert
- Virginia Swezy: a Champion in the Final Leg of the Race
- Steve Stewart: Roads and Rivers
- Fabio Leviano: Opening Pandora's Box
- Donald Hopkins: the Blowing of a Certain Trumpet
- Walter Dowdle: the Leader People Barely Know Exists
- Steve Cochi: Turning Dreams into Reality
- The World Health Organization.
