Author: Benjamin MoseleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
A Treatise on Tropical Diseases
Author: Benjamin MoseleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
A Treatise on Tropical Diseases
Author: Benjamin MoseleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
A Treatise on Tropical Diseases, and on the climate of the West Indies
Author: Benjamin MoseleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tropical medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A Treatise on Tropical Diseases ... Third edition, with considerable additions
Author: Benjamin MoseleyThe Making of a Tropical Disease
Author: Randall M. PackardPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421441799
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
A global history of malaria that traces the natural and social forces that have shaped its spread and made it deadly, while limiting efforts to eliminate it. Malaria sickens hundreds of millions of people—and kills nearly a half a 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 malaria disappear from other regions, and why does it persist in the tropics? From Russia to Bengal to Palm Beach, Randall M. Packard's far-ranging narrative shows how the history of malaria has been driven by the interplay of social, biological, economic, and environmental forces. The shifting alignment of these forces has largely determined the social and geographical distribution of the disease, including its initial global expansion, its subsequent retreat to the tropics, and its current persistence. Packard argues that efforts to control and eliminate malaria have often ignored this reality, relying on the use of biotechnologies to fight the disease. Failure to address the forces driving malaria transmission have undermined past control efforts. Describing major changes in both the epidemiology of malaria and efforts to control the disease, the revised edition of this acclaimed history, which was chosen as the 2008 End Malaria Awards Book of the Year in its original printing, • examines recent efforts to eradicate malaria following massive increases in funding and political commitment; • discusses the development of new malaria-fighting biotechnologies, including long-lasting insecticide-treated nets, rapid diagnostic tests, combination artemisinin therapies, and genetically modified mosquitoes; • explores the efficacy of newly developed vaccines; and • explains why eliminating malaria will also require addressing the social forces that drive the disease and building health infrastructures that can identify and treat the last cases of malaria. Authoritative, fascinating, and eye-opening, this short history of malaria concludes with policy recommendations for improving control strategies and saving lives.
A Treatise on Tropical Diseases, on Military Operations; and on the Climate of the West-Indies. 3. Ed
Author: Benjamin MoseleyA Treatise on Tropical Diseases
Author: Benjamin MoseleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tropical medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Neurology in Tropics (e-Book)
Author: Jagjit ChopraPublisher:
ISBN: 8131242331
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Assembling the Tropics
Author: Hugh CaglePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107196639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.
A Tale of a Man, a Worm and a Snail
Author: Alan FenwickPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 1786392550
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Schistosomiasis is Africa's second most common parasitic disease. Less than 20 years ago, over 200 million were infected. In many high-risk areas the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) has been helping to tackle the disease by offering treatments to millions of children. This book tells the story of a man, Alan Fenwick, who founded the SCI to control the worms and snails and so improve the lives of many burdened with the disease as well as reducing the numbers infected. Over this period SCI and the Ministries of Health and Education in 16 countries delivered over 220 million treatments. Treatment coverage of up to 75% has been achieved. Widely recognised as a cost-effective and successful intervention, SCI's knock-on effects include improving overall physical health, school attendance and future prospects for millions of people.