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Another Magic Mountain - Kibong'Oto Hospital And African Tuberculosis, 1920â€“2000

by Christoph Gradmann

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 Kibongâ€™oto Hospital is an East African tuberculosis treatment center located on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Its history is crucial to understanding tuberculosis in Tanzania and, more broadly, in Africa. With the hospital as a point of departure, Gradmann presents a history of this disease that engages with local and regional contexts.
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Another Magic Mountain - Kibong'Oto Hospital And African Tuberculosis, 1920â€“2000

by Christoph Gradmann

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 Although one of the worldâ€™s deadliest diseases, tuberculosis today is confined to a small group of countries, including Tanzania. This book chronicles tuberculosis treatment at a specialized hospital from colonial to postcolonial times, and from the days when surgery and fresh air were common treatments to more recent times of chemotherapies and the HIV/tuberculosis coepidemic.
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Virus Research In Twentieth-Century Uganda - Between Local And Global

by Julia Ross Cummiskey

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 This case study contextualizes calls to decolonize global health within a long history of negotiations between scientists based in Uganda, the United States, and Europe over what research should be done, by whom, and where. The book covers colonial Uganda through the first years of Yoweri Museveniâ€™s presidency.
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Virus Research In Twentieth-Century Uganda - Between Local And Global

by Julia Ross Cummiskey

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 Presents the stories of scientists at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), a biomedical center founded in 1936 and shows how their story transforms our understanding of the nature of local and international expertise and the evolution of global health research over the course of the twentieth century.
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Histories Of Hivs - The Emergence Of The Multiple Viruses That Caused The Aids Epidemics

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 This new collection of essays on HIV viruses spans disciplines to topple popular narratives about the origins of the AIDS pandemic and the impact of the disease on public health policy. With a death toll in the tens of millions, the AIDS pandemic was one of the worst medical disasters of the past century. The disease was identified in 1981, at the height of miraculous postwar medical achievements, including effective antibiotics, breakthrough advances in heart surgery and transplantations, and cheap, safe vaccines—smallpox had been eradicated just a few years earlier. Arriving as they did during this era of confidence in modern medicine, the HIV epidemics shook the public’s faith in health science. Despite subsequent success in identifying, testing, and treating AIDS, the emergence of epidemics and outbreaks of Ebola, Zika, and the novel coronaviruses (SARS and COVID-19) are stark reminders that such confidence in modern medicine is not likely to be restored until the emergence of these viruses is better understood. This collection combines the work of major social science and humanities scholars with that of virologists and epidemiologists to provide a broader understanding of the historical, social, and cultural circumstances that produced the pandemic. The authors argue that the emergence of the HIV viruses and their epidemic spread were not the result of a random mutation but rather broader new influences whose impact depended upon a combination of specific circumstances at different places and times. The viruses emerged and were transmitted according to population movement and urbanization, changes in sexual relations, new medical procedures, and war. In this way, the AIDS pandemic was not a chance natural occurrence, but a human-made disaster. Essays by: Ernest M. Drucker, Tamara Giles-Vernick, Ch. Didier Gondola, Guillaume Lachenal, Amandine Lauro, Preston A. Marx, Stephanie Rupp, François Simon, Jorge Varanda
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Riddle Of Malnutrition - The Long Arc Of Biomedical And Public Health Interventions In Uganda

by Jennifer Tappan

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 More than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served to medicalize it, in the eyes of both biomedical personnel and Ugandans who brought their children to the hospital for treatment and care.
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The Riddle Of Malnutrition - The Long Arc Of Biomedical And Public Health Interventions In Uganda

by Jennifer Tappan

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 More than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served to medicalize it, in the eyes of both biomedical personnel and Ugandans who brought their children to the hospital for treatment and care.
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The Experiment Must Continue - Medical Research And Ethics In East Africa, 1940â€“2014

by Melissa Graboyes

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 The Experiment Must Continue is a beautifully articulated ethnographic history of medical experimentation in East Africa from 1940 through 2014. In it, Melissa Graboyes combines her training in public health and in history to treat her subject with the dual sensitivities of a medical ethicist and a fine historian.
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Preaching Prevention - Born-Again Christianity And The Moral Politics Of Aids In Uganda

by Lydia Boyd

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 Preaching Prevention examines the controversial U.S. Presidentâ€™s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative to â€œabstain and be faithfulâ€ as a primary prevention strategy in Africa.
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Experiment Must Continue - Medical Research And Ethics In East Africa, 1940-2014

by Melissa Graboyes

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 The Experiment Must Continue is a beautifully articulated ethnographic history of medical experimentation in East Africa from 1940 through 2014. In it, Melissa Graboyes combines her training in public health and in history to treat her subject with the dual sensitivities of a medical ethicist and a fine historian.
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Preaching Prevention - Born-Again Christianity And The Moral Politics Of Aids In Uganda

by Lydia Boyd

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 Preaching Prevention examines the controversial U.S. Presidentâ€™s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative to â€œabstain and be faithfulâ€ as a primary prevention strategy in Africa.
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History Of Blood Transfusion In Sub-Saharan Africa

by William H. Schneider

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 A study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa that 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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Global Health In Africa - Historical Perspectives On Disease Control

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 Offers a first comprehensive look at some of global health's most important challenges.
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Malaria On The Move - Rural Communities And Public Health In Zimbabwe, 1890-2015

by Kundai Manamere

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 Malaria on the Move provides a historical analysis of malaria control in Rhodesia and independent Zimbabwe from the late nineteenth century to 2015. The book examines how migration and travel influence the risk of malaria and reaffirms the need to take into consideration local socioeconomic factors in designing and implementing interventions.
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Malaria On The Move - Rural Communities And Public Health In Zimbabwe, 1890â€“2015

by Kundai Manamere

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 Malaria on the Move provides a historical analysis of malaria control in Rhodesia and independent Zimbabwe from the late nineteenth century to 2015. The book examines how migration and travel influence the risk of malaria and reaffirms the need to take into consideration local socioeconomic factors in designing and implementing interventions.
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Malaria On The Move - Rural Communities And Public Health In Zimbabwe, 1890â€“2015

by Kundai Manamere

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 Malaria on the Move provides a historical analysis of malaria control in Rhodesia and independent Zimbabwe from the late nineteenth century to 2015. The book examines how migration and travel influence the risk of malaria and reaffirms the need to take into consideration local socioeconomic factors in designing and implementing interventions.
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The Histories Of Hivs - The Emergence Of The Multiple Viruses That Caused The Aids Epidemics

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 In this interdisciplinary collection, experts provide the most complete description to date of the often ignored and underappreciated features of the history of the multiple human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) responsible for the global AIDS pandemic.
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South Africa'S Suspended Revolution - Hopes And Prospects

by Adam Habib

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 Beginning with an account of the transition in the leadership of the African National Congress from Thabo Mbeki to Jacob Zuma, this book broadens its lens to examine the relationship of South Africa's political elite to its citizens. It examines the evolution of economic and social policies through the democratic transition.
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The History Of Blood Transfusion In Sub-Saharan Africa

by William H. Schneider

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 A study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa that 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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Global Health In Africa - Historical Perspectives On Disease Control

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 Offers a first comprehensive look at some of global health's most important challenges.
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Keep On Fighting - The Life And Civil Rights Legacy Of Marian A. Spencer

by Dorothy H. Christenson

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 Dot Christenson records the life story of remarkable leader, Marian Alexander Spencer, who joined the NAACP at thirteen and grew up to achieve a number of civic leadership firsts and a legacy of lasting civil rights victories.
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Global Health In Africa - Historical Perspectives On Disease Control

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 Offers a first comprehensive look at some of global health's most important challenges.
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The Riddle Of Malnutrition - The Long Arc Of Biomedical And Public Health Interventions In Uganda

by Jennifer Tappan

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 More than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served to medicalize it, in the eyes of both biomedical personnel and Ugandans who brought their children to the hospital for treatment and care.
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The Experiment Must Continue - Medical Research And Ethics In East Africa, 1940â€“2014

by Melissa Graboyes

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 The Experiment Must Continue is a beautifully articulated ethnographic history of medical experimentation in East Africa from 1940 through 2014. In it, Melissa Graboyes combines her training in public health and in history to treat her subject with the dual sensitivities of a medical ethicist and a fine historian.
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