Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control / / edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L. A. Webb, Jr

• Pubblicazione: Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Disciplina: 614.4096
• Soggetto topico: Public health - Africa; Medical policy - Africa; Public health - International cooperation
• Soggetto geografico: Africa Social conditions Congresses
• Altri autori: Giles-VernickTamara <1962-> WebbJames L. A., Jr., <1952->
• Note generali: "Global Health in Africa had its beginnings in 2008, at a one-day workshop at Princeton University"--Acknowledgements.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Global health in Africa
• ISBN: 0-8214-4471-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790892703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Perspectives on Global Health