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The making of a tropical disease : a short history of malaria / Randall M. Packard.

By: Series: Johns Hopkins biographies of diseasePublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.Description: xvii, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780801887123 (hbk.)
  • 0801887127 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.9362009 PAC
Contents:
Foreword, by Charles E. Rosenberg. - Preface. - Introduction : Constructing a global narrative. - Ch. 1: Beginnings. - Ch. 2: Malaria moves north. - Ch. 3: A southern disease. - Ch. 4: Tropical development and malaria. - Ch. 5: The making of a vector-borne disease. - Ch. 6: Malaria dreams. - Ch. 7: Malaria realities. - Ch. 8: Rolling back malaria: the future of a tropical disease?. - Conclusion : Ecology and policy. - Acknowledgments. - Notes. - Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-289) and index.

Foreword, by Charles E. Rosenberg. - Preface. - Introduction : Constructing a global narrative. - Ch. 1: Beginnings. - Ch. 2: Malaria moves north. - Ch. 3: A southern disease. - Ch. 4: Tropical development and malaria. - Ch. 5: The making of a vector-borne disease. - Ch. 6: Malaria dreams. - Ch. 7: Malaria realities. - Ch. 8: Rolling back malaria: the future of a tropical disease?. - Conclusion : Ecology and policy. - Acknowledgments. - Notes. - Index.

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