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245 1 0 _aGlobal health in Africa :
_bhistorical perspectives on disease control /
_cedited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L.A. Webb, Jr.
260 _aAthens, Ohio :
_bOhio University Press,
_c(c)2013.
300 _a1 online resource
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490 1 _aPerspectives on global health
500 _a"Global Health in Africa had its beginnings in 2008, at a one-day workshop at Princeton University"--Acknowledgements
504 _a2
505 0 0 _tIntroduction /
_rJames L.A. Webb, Jr., and Tamara Giles-Vernick --
_tThe long history of smallpox eradication : lessons for global health in Africa /
_rWilliam H. Schneider --
_tThe first large-scale use of synthetic insecticide to control malaria in tropical Africa : lessons from Liberia, 1945-62 /
_rJames L.A. Webb, Jr --
_tA genealogy of treatment as prevention (TasP) : prevention, therapy, and the tensions of public health in Africa /
_rGuillaume Lachenal --
_tThe true fiasco : the treatment and prevention of severe acute malnutrition in Uganda, 1950-74 /
_rJennifer Tappan --
_tPeople, great apes, disease, and global health in the northern forests of equatorial Africa /
_rTamara Giles-Vernick and Stephanie Rupp --
_tDefenseless bodies and violent afflictions in a global world : blood, iatrogenesis, and hepatitis C transmission in Egypt /
_rAnne Marie Moulin --
_t"Snake in the belly" : Africa's unhappy experience with cholera during the seventh pandemic, 1971 to the present /
_rMyron Echenberg --
_tMale circumcision and HIV control in Africa : questioning scientific evidence and the decision-making process /
_rMichel Garenne, Alain Giami, and Christophe Perrey --
_tHeroin use, trafficking, and intervention approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa : local and global contexts /
_rSheryl McCurdy and Haruka Maruyama.
520 0 _aGlobal 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
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650 0 _aPublic health
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650 0 _aMedical policy
_zAfrica
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650 0 _aPublic health
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650 0 _aPublic health.
650 0 _aMedical policy.
650 0 _aInternational cooperation.
650 0 _aSocial history.
650 1 2 _aPublic Health
650 2 2 _aHealth Policy
650 2 2 _aInternational Cooperation
650 2 2 _aSocial Conditions
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
700 1 _aGiles-Vernick, Tamara,
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700 1 _aWebb, James L. A.,
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