The Making of a Tropical Disease - A Short History of Malaria - Couverture souple

Packard, Randall M.

 
9781421403960: The Making of a Tropical Disease - A Short History of Malaria
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 142140396X ISBN 13 : 9781421403960
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Winner, 2008 Book of the Year, End Malaria Awards, Malaria Foundation International

Malaria sickens hundreds of millions of people—and kills one to three million—each year. Despite massive efforts to eradicate the disease, it remains a major public health problem in poorer tropical regions. But malaria has not always been concentrated in tropical areas. How did other regions control malaria and why does the disease still flourish in some parts of the globe?

From Russia to Bengal to Palm Beach, Randall Packard’s far-ranging narrative traces the natural and social forces that help malaria spread and make it deadly. He finds that war, land development, crumbling health systems, and globalization—coupled with climate change and changes in the distribution and flow of water—create conditions in which malaria's carrier mosquitoes thrive. The combination of these forces, Packard contends, makes the tropical regions today a perfect home for the disease.

Authoritative, fascinating, and eye-opening, this short history of malaria concludes with policy recommendations for improving control strategies and saving lives.

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À propos de l'auteur

Randall M. Packard is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa; The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria; A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples; and coeditor of Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
142140396X
ISBN 13 
9781421403960
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
316
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0801887127 ISBN 13 :  9780801887123
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
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