Book ID: CBB000101070

Malaria: Poverty, Race and Public Health in the United States (2001)

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Humphreys, Margaret E. (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xi + 196 pp., illus., bibl., notes, index
Language: English

Description Focuses on malaria's existence in some parts of the world and disappearance in another by exploring the parasite's biological history, the medical response, and the patient's experience.


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Review Breeden, James O. (2002) Review of "Malaria: Poverty, Race and Public Health in the United States". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 854). unapi

Review Hooker, Claire (2003) Review of "Malaria: Poverty, Race and Public Health in the United States". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 381). unapi

Review Edelson, Paul J. (2003) Review of "Malaria: Poverty, Race and Public Health in the United States". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 399). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Duranti, Tommaso
Aldo De Togni
Verhave, J. P.
McCrea, Heather
Yeo, I. S.
Wray, Matt
Journals
Social History of Medicine
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Medical History
Korean Journal of Medical History
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Publishers
Duke University Press
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
University of Minnesota Press
Erasmus Publishing
Carocci Editore
Boydell Press
Concepts
Disease and diseases
Public health
Malaria
Medicine
Parasitic diseases
Tropical medicine
People
Swellengrebel, Nicolaas Hendrik
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
18th century
Medieval
Places
United States
Republic of Liberia
Lisbon (Portugal)
Belize
Northern Europe
Americas
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
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