num_pages: 290
description: "Reads like a murder mystery…[Desowitz] writes with uncommon lucidity and verse, leaving the reader with a vivid understanding of malaria and other tropical diseases, and the ways in which culture, climate and politics have affected their spread and containment." ― New York Times Why, Robert S. Desowitz asks, has biotechnical research on malaria produced so little when it had promised so much? An expert in tropical diseases, Desowtiz searches for answers in this provocative book.
language: English
title: The Malaria Capers: Tales of Parasites and People
titlecomplete: The Malaria Capers: Tales of Parasites and People
genres: Medicine, Biology, History, Science, Nonfiction, Medical
ratings_count: 149
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company