Published July, 2015
By Professor of History James C McCann and James C. McCann
Publisher: Ohio University Press
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Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africa's most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology of the disease through the science of landscape change. All malaria is local.

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Published December, 2013
By Ruth Jane Prince and Rebecca Marsland
Publisher: Ohio University Press
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The volume develops an anthropology of public health in Africa.

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Published November, 2013
By Ruth Jane Prince, Rebecca Marsland and Ruth J. Prince
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The volume develops an anthropology of public health in Africa.

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Published November, 2013
By Tamara Giles-Vernick, James L. A. Webb, James L.A. Webb Jr. and James L. A. Webb, Jr
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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.

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Published November, 2013
By Tamara Giles-Vernick, James L. A. Webb and James L. A. Webb, Jr
Publisher: Ohio University Press
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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.

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Published October, 2013
By Matthew M. Heaton
Publisher: Ohio University Press
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Black Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s.

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Published July, 2013
By William H. Schneider
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This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic.

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Published September, 2012
By Howard Phillips
Publisher: Ohio University Press
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Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today - smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and HIV/AIDS, this book probes their origins, their catastrophic courses, and their consequences in both the short and long terms.

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Published June, 2012
By Karen Brown
Publisher: Ohio University Press
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Published March, 2012
By Sylvia A. Pamboukian
Publisher: Ohio University Press
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If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and evolve?

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