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Global disease eradication : the race for the last child / Cynthia A. Needham and Richard Canning.
Holman Biotech Commons RA651 .N44 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Needham, Cynthia, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epidemics--Prevention.
- Epidemics.
- Communicable diseases--Prevention.
- Communicable diseases.
- Communicable Disease Control.
- Malaria--prevention & control.
- Poliomyelitis--prevention & control.
- Smallpox--prevention & control.
- Medical Subjects:
- Communicable Disease Control.
- Malaria--prevention & control.
- Poliomyelitis--prevention & control.
- Smallpox--prevention & control.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 196 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Two children
- Swamps, farms, and bad air
- Escalating pressure
- Learning from the past
- Biology plays its hand
- Social issues loom large
- Fatal inflexibility
- The price of failure
- Forward to the present
- Magic bullets
- Malaria, man, and mosquito
- Fading scars
- From golden needles to vaccine
- Moving toward control
- Thinking about eradication
- Commitment, evolution, success
- Smallpox Zero
- The smallpox dividend
- An incomplete life
- Biologic realities
- The invisible disease
- The clearing picture
- President Roosevelt's other war
- The needs of the world
- Brazil's attack
- Coming to America
- Going global
- Measures of success, or failure
- The end game
- Another virus, another vaccine
- Biologic feasibility
- Financial resources
- Political will
- Social benefit
- The next campaign
- Christopher Plowe and the Abdoulaye Djimde: malaria warriors
- Donald Ainslie Henderson: politics and public health
- William Foege: legacy of a smallpox campaign
- Sharon Bloom: when politics are local
- Philip Spradling, from primary care to the mountains of Nepal
- Kathy Kohler, fulfilling a dream
- Alice Pope: a passion for people
- Duane Kilgus: from desk to desert
- Virginia Swezy: a champion in the final leg of the race
- Steve Stewart: roads and rivers
- Fabio Leviano: opening Pandora's box
- Donald Hopkins: the blowing of a certain trumpet
- Walter Dowdle: the leader
- people barely know exists
- Steve Cochi: turning dreams into reality
- The World Health Organization.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1555812252
- OCLC:
- 51804930
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