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

By: Packard, Randall M, 1945-.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins biographies of disease. Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-289) and index.Description: xvii, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780801887123 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0801887127 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Malaria -- HistoryDDC classification: 616.9/362009 Online resources: Table of contents | Publisher description | Contributor biographical information
Contents:
Foreword / Charles E. Rosenberg -- Preface : Mulanda -- Introduction : Constructing a global narrative -- Beginnings -- Malaria moves north -- southern disease -- Tropical development and malaria -- making of a vector-borne disease -- Malaria dreams -- Malaria realities -- 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 / Charles E. Rosenberg -- Preface : Mulanda -- 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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