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Global Health in Africa is a first exploration of selected histories of global health initiatives in Africa. The collection addresses some of the most important interventions in disease control, including mass vaccination, large-scale treatment and/or prophylaxis campaigns, harm reduction efforts, and nutritional and virological research.The chapters in this collection are organized in three sections that evaluate linkages between past, present, and emergent. Part I, “Looking Back,” contains four chapters that analyze colonial-era interventions and reflect upon their implications for contemporary interventions. Part II, “The Past in the Present,” contains essays exploring the historical dimensions and unexamined assumptions of contemporary disease control programs. Part III, “The Past in the Future,” examines two fields of public health intervention in which efforts to reduce disease transmission and future harm are premised on an understanding of the past. This much-needed volume brings together international experts from the disciplines of demography, anthropology, and historical epidemiology. Covering health initiatives from smallpox vaccinations to malaria control to HIV campaigns, Global Health in Africa offers a first comprehensive look at some of global health’s most important challenges.

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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

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

[ 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

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.&hellip; 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

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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.

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