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Author: Tamara Giles-Vernick ,
James L. A. Webb Jr.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Imprint: Ohio University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.295kg
ISBN: 9780821420683
ISBN 10: 0821420682
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 15 November 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
[ Global Health in Africa ] demonstrates that Africa's global health history is rich, important, and under-researched. The strength of this book lies in the breadth and depth of the studies presented in one volume. --Socrates Litsios, former Senior Scientist in the Division of the Control of Tropical Diseases at the World Health Organization
Provides a variety of case studies from different parts of the continent and different historical periods.... The cumulative effect of the chapters impresses on the reader the scope of the experimentation that has been done and that continues to be done on African bodies. <br><br>Lori Leonard, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
This volume illustrates very well that the current day applicability of the core concepts of global health [have] need of the serious critical historical and cultural examination that this volume (and no others that I know of) now provides in its richest and most useful form. Ernest Drucker, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Provides a variety of case studies from different parts of the continent and different historical periods.… The cumulative effect of the chapters impresses on the reader the scope of the experimentation that has been done and that continues to be done on African bodies. Lori Leonard, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Author Information
Tamara Giles-Vernick conducts anthropological and historical research on hepatitis B and C transmission and control, zoonoses, buruli ulcer, and the emergence of HIV in Africa. Based at the Epidemiology of Emerging Diseases Unit of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, she has published two books and multiple articles on global public health, environmental history, conservation, and oral historiography. James L. A. Webb, Jr. is a Professor of History at Colby College. He is the editor of the Ohio University Press series Perspectives on Global Health and the Series in Ecology and History and the author of Humanity's Burden: A Global History of Malaria and The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa. He is currently writing a book on the historical epidemiology of diarrheal diseases.
