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Public Health Disasters: A Global Ethical Framework
This book presents the first critical examination of the overlapping ethical, sociocultural, and policy-related issues surrounding disasters, global bioethics, and public health ethics. These issues are elucidated under the conceptual rubric: Public health disasters (PHDs). The book defines PHDs as public health issues with devastating social consequences, the attendant public health impacts of natural or man-made disasters, and latent or low prevalence public health issues with the potential to rapidly acquire pandemic capacities. This notion is illustrated using Ebola and pandemic influenza outbreaks, atypical drug-resistant tuberculosis, and the health emergencies of earthquakes as focal ...
Enemy in the Blood
Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina examines the dramatic yet mostly forgotten history of malaria control in northwest Argentina. Carter traces the evolution of malaria science and policy in Argentina from the disease’s emergence as a social problem in the 1890s to its effective eradication by 1950. Malaria-control proponents saw the campaign as part of a larger project of constructing a modern identity for Argentina. Insofar as development meant building a more productive, rational, and hygienic society, the perceptions of a culturally backwards and disease-ridden interior prevented Argentina from joining the ranks of “modern” nations. The path to er...
Protozoal Diseases
A comprehensive account of current knowledge of human diseases caused by infection due to protozoal organisms. These diseases include amoebiasis, leishmaniasis, giardiasis, trypanosomiasis and most importantly malaria. Organised according to infective agent, the book systematically looks at the agent itself, the pathogenesis (AI - disease process) and the clinical features of the disease enteties it causes, as well as its treatment and control.The author follows a standard format for each organism: Historical review, the agent, symptomology, differential diagnosis, diagnostic (including DNA) procedures, therapy, epidemiology and prevention and control. The book is comprehensively referenced, including classic landmark papers, key current papers, and state of the art reviews.
