War and disease : biomedical research on malaria in the twentieth century / Leo B. Slater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slater, Leo Barney, 1963-

Series:

Critical issues in health and medicine.

Critical issues in health and medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malaria--Treatment--United States--History--20th century.

Malaria.

Malaria--Research--United States--History--20th century.

Antimalarials--United States--History--20th century.

Antimalarials.

Chloroquine--Therapeutic use--United States--History--20th century.

Chloroquine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Malaria is one of the leading killers in the world today. Though drugs against malaria have a long history, attempts to develop novel therapeutics spanned the twentieth century and continue today. In this historical study, Leo B. Slater shows the roots and branches of an enormous drug development project during World War II. Fighting around the globe, American soldiers were at high risk for contracting malaria, yet quinine-a natural cure-became harder to acquire. A U.S. government-funded antimalarial program, initiated by the National Research Council, brought together diverse laboratories and specialists to provide the best drugs to the nation's military. This wartime research would deliver chloroquinine-long the drug of choice for prevention and treatment of malaria-and a host of other chemotherapeutic insights. A massive undertaking, the antimalarial program was to biomedical research what the Manhattan Project was to the physical sciences. A volume in the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series, edited by Rima D. Apple and Janet Golden.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Quinine and the Environment of Disease

Chapter 2. Avian Malaria

Chapter 3. New Drugs

Chapter 4. Preparing for War

Chapter 5. Cooperation and Coordination

Chapter 6. Trust and Transition

Chapter 7. Chloroquine, Wonder Drug

Chapter 8. Lessons Learned

Notes

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-241) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-03351-4

9786612033513

0-8135-4646-X

OCLC:

476239189