The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa
The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa
The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa investigates the changing entomological, parasitological and medical understandings of vectors, parasites and malarial disease that have shaped the programs of malaria control and altered the transmission of malarial infections. It examines the history of malaria control and eradication in the contexts of racial thought, population movements, demographic growth, economic change, urbanization, warfare and politics. It will be useful for students of medicine and public health, for those who are involved with malaria research studies, and for those who work on the contemporary malaria control and elimination campaigns in tropical Africa.
- The first history of the efforts to control malaria in tropical Africa
- A pioneering contribution to the field of historical epidemiology
- Compares the contemporary malaria eradication campaign with the first malaria eradication campaign in the mid-twentieth century
Product details
April 2016Paperback
9781107685109
242 pages
229 × 152 × 15 mm
0.27kg
5 b/w illus. 6 maps 1 table
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Table of Contents
- 1. European vulnerability
- 2. African immunity
- 3. An aborted campaign for eradication
- 4. Positive turbulence
- 5. Silent resurgence
- 6. The campaign for 'elimination'
- 7. Perspectives.
