Tropical diseases, lessons from history = Doenças tropicais, lições da história / edited by Alexander Medcalf and Sanjoy Bhattacharya.

Date:
2014
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About this work

Publication/Creation

Hyderabad : Orient BlackSwan Private Limited ; York : Centre for Global Health Histories, The University of York, 2014.

Physical description

xiv, 169 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 x 29 cm

Contents

Leprosy / Jo Robertson, S.K. Noordeen -- Guinea worm disease / Anne Marie Moulin, Dirk Engels -- Sleeping sickness / Guillaume Lachenal, Jean Jannin -- River blindness / Jesse B. Bump, Janis K. Lazdins-Helds -- Malaria treatment and control / James L.A. Webb, Jr., Andrea Bosman -- Chagas disease / Simone Petraglia Kropf, Roberto Salvatella Agrelo & Gabriel A. Schmunis -- Kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis) / Achintya Kumar Dutta, Jorge Alvar -- Tropical disease vectors / Randall M. Packard, Axel Kroeger -- Essential and inessential medicines / Jeremy A. Greene, Zafar Mirza -- Combating neglected tropical diseases from the laboratory: targeting Kala azar / Deborah Smith, Paul Kaye -- Lessons learnt for the control of neglected tropical diseases / Adetokunbo O. Lucas.

Language note

Parallel text in English and Portuguese.

Type/Technique

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9788125055105
  • 812505510X