Global Health in Africa (eBook)

Historical Perspectives on Disease Control

Tamara Giles-Vernick, James L. A. Webb Jr. (Herausgeber)

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2013
255 Seiten
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-4471-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.The chapters in this collection are organized in three sections that evaluate linkages between past, present, and emergent. Part I, "e;Looking Back,"e; contains four chapters that analyze colonial-era interventions and reflect upon their implications for contemporary interventions. Part II, "e;The Past in the Present,"e; contains essays exploring the historical dimensions and unexamined assumptions of contemporary disease control programs. Part III, "e;The Past in the Future,"e; examines two fields of public health intervention in which efforts to reduce disease transmission and future harm are premised on an understanding of the past.This much-needed volume brings together international experts from the disciplines of demography, anthropology, and historical epidemiology. Covering health initiatives from smallpox vaccinations to malaria control to HIV campaigns, Global Health in Africa offers a first comprehensive look at some of global health's most important challenges.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction
James L. A. Webb, Jr. and Tamara Giles-Vernick

Part I. Looking Back
One: The Long History of Smallpox Eradication
Lessons for Global Health in Africa
William H. Schneider
Two: The First Large-Scale Use of Synthetic Insecticide for Malaria Control in Tropical Africa
Lessons from Liberia, 1945–62
James L. A. Webb, Jr.
Three: A Genealogy of Treatment as Prevention (TasP)
Prevention, Therapy, and the Tensions of Public Health in African History
Guillaume Lachenal
Four: The True Fiasco
The Treatment and Prevention of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Uganda, 1950–74
Jennifer Tappan
Part II. The Past in the Present
Five: People, Great Apes, Disease, and Global Health in the Northern Forests of Equatorial Africa
Tamara Giles-Vernick and Stephanie Rupp
Six: Defenseless Bodies and Violent Afflictions in a Global World
Blood, Iatrogenesis, and Hepatitis C Transmission in Egypt
Anne Marie Moulin
Seven: “Snake in the Belly”
Africa’s Unhappy Experience with Cholera during the Seventh Pandemic, 1971 to the Present
Myron Echenberg

Part III. The Past in the Future
Eight: Male Circumcision and HIV Control in Africa
Questioning Scientific Evidence and the Decision-Making Process
Michel Garenne, Alain Giami, and Christophe Perrey
Nine: Heroin Use, Trafficking, and Intervention Approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa
Local and Global Contexts
Sheryl McCurdy and Haruka Maruyama

About the Contributors
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Perspectives on Global Health
• Reihe/Serie: Perspectives on Global Health
• Verlagsort: Athens
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-8214-4471-9 / 0821444719
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-4471-9 / 9780821444719