Global Health in Africa - Historical Perspectives on Disease Control

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.

About the author

Tamara Giles-Vernick conducts anthropological and historical research on hepatitis B and C transmission and control, zoonoses, buruli ulcer, and the emergence of HIV in Africa. Based at the Epidemiology of Emerging Diseases Unit of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, she has published two books and multiple articles on global public health, environmental history, conservation, and oral historiography. James L. A. Webb, Jr. is a Professor of History at Colby College. He is the editor of the Ohio University Press series "Perspectives on Global Health" and the "Series in Ecology and History" and the author of "Humanity's Burden: A Global History of Malaria" and "The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa." He is currently writing a book on the historical epidemiology of diarrheal diseases.

Summary

Offers a first comprehensive look at some of global health's most important challenges.

Product details

• Authors: Tamara (EDT)/ Webb Giles-Vernick
• Assisted by: Tamara Giles-Vernick (Editor), James L. A. Webb Jr. (Editor), James L. A. Webb (Editor), James L. a. Webb Jr (Editor), James L. A. Webb Jr. (Editor)
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2013
• EAN: 9780821420676
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2067-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Perspectives on Global Health; Perspectives on Global Health
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General