UID:
almafu_9959237538602883
Format:
1 online resource (255 p.)
ISBN:
0-8214-4471-9
Series Statement:
Perspectives on global health
Content:
Global Health in Africa explores the histories of global health initiatives to control disease in Africa. It provides valuable historical and anthropological research that integrates the social and biomedical sciences in the service of global public health. Its aim is to broaden the training of a new generation of global public health professionals. This new collection of nine chapters explores past global health interventions, some of which have failed and cast long shadows of unintended consequences. The contributors reveal long-standing policy and unquestioned assumptions that continue to guide some contemporary interventions. The volume as a whole highlights the utility of bridging the divide between social and biomedical sciences in order to improve the delivery of global health services. -- from back cover.
Note:
"Global Health in Africa had its beginnings in 2008, at a one-day workshop at Princeton University"--Acknowledgements.
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Introduction /
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The long history of smallpox eradication : lessons for global health in Africa /
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The first large-scale use of synthetic insecticide to control malaria in tropical Africa : lessons from Liberia, 1945-62 /
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A genealogy of treatment as prevention (TasP) : prevention, therapy, and the tensions of public health in Africa /
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The true fiasco : the treatment and prevention of severe acute malnutrition in Uganda, 1950-74 /
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People, great apes, disease, and global health in the northern forests of equatorial Africa /
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Defenseless bodies and violent afflictions in a global world : blood, iatrogenesis, and hepatitis C transmission in Egypt /
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"Snake in the belly" : Africa's unhappy experience with cholera during the seventh pandemic, 1971 to the present /
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Male circumcision and HIV control in Africa : questioning scientific evidence and the decision-making process /
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Heroin use, trafficking, and intervention approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa : local and global contexts /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8214-2068-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8214-2067-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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