The Making of a Tropical Disease (2nd Edition)

A Short History of Malaria

The Making of a Tropical Disease (2nd Edition)
Randall M Packard
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13 Jul 2021 US
9781421441795
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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? Authoritative, fascinating, and eye-opening, this short history of malaria traces the natural and social forces that help the disease spread and make it deadly.

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What Randall M. Packard does masterfully in his book on malaria is to integrate the biological complexity of the disease into its historical, social and economic context, even if he stops short of drawing all the obvious conclusions from the data he so ably presents. -- G. Dunkel Workers World Useful in collections that support tropical medicine, public health, and the history of medicine. Choice A fine book... This short book carries through its thoughtful approach with admirable power and consistency. -- Bill Bynum Lancet This is an excellent and well-balanced book that will be of interest to a wide audience. -- Brian Greenwood Nature Medicine This is an interesting read-a short, well-written, and exceptionally well-documented history and commentary on the possible control-and, hopefully, eradication-of one of the world's major diseases. -- Markley H. Boyer, MD, DPhil, MPH JAMA This is a remarkable book that will be of great interest to any historian working on the history of disease and to those historians who deal with the difficult question of how to write sound and clear general histories. -- Marcos Cueto Bulletin of the History of Medicine Packard's is a terrific book that will guide the next generation of medical and environmental historians as global challenges to health persist and expand in the wake of unintended environmental change. -- James C. McCann International Journal of African Historical Studies The Making of a Tropical Disease is a vigorously argued and accessibly narrated ecological history of malaria, a contribution as much to social medicine and studies in the political economy of disease as to medical history. -- Warwick Anderson Isis What gives a special energy to this volume is his conviction that the history of malaria is embedded in the history of development and that the lessons of this history must be applied to contemporary development policies. -- Marcia Wright Journal of Global History Packard's lightness of touch allows his book to be both enjoyable and compelling, despite the frustration and heartbreak in his story. -- Anne Hardy Journal of Interdisciplinary History An excellent and well-balanced book that will be of interest to a wide audience. It should be required reading for all those contemplating a second malaria eradication campaign. -- Brian Greenwood Nature Medicine The author can be congratulated for having tackled such a complex and difficult topic. His research and depth of knowledge on the topic as a historian are just amazing. He has also provided excellent references for further studies. -- Walter Kipp Canadian Studies in Population Authoritative, fascinating, and eye-opening. Book Bargains and Previews
Randall M. Packard is director of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa and coeditor of Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781421441795
Published: 13 Jul 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 499g
Pages: 352

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