Ebook: Eradication : Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?
Author: Stepan Nancy Leys
- Tags: Communicable diseases -- Prevention -- History., Epidemics -- Prevention -- History., Health promotion -- History., Medicine Preventive -- History.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- City: London
- Language: English
- epub
The dream of a world completely free of disease may seem utopian. Yet eradication, used in its modern sense to mean the reduction of a disease to zero by means of purposeful public health interventions, has been pursued repeatedly. Campaigns against yellow fever, malaria, smallpox, and polio are among the largest, most costly programmes ever undertaken in international public health. Only one so far has beenRead more...
Abstract:
'Eradication' is a history of the attempts to rid the world of diseases such as yellow fever, malaria, smallpox, and polio. Nancy Leys Stepan covers all the major eradication campaigns, from theRead more...
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