Humanity's burden
Subtitle: a global history of malaria
By: James L.A. Webb Jr.
Series: Studies in environment and history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780521854184; 9780521670128
Subjects: Malaria -- History; Malaria -- history; Antimalarials -- history; Communicable Disease Control -- history; Disease Outbreaks -- history; Quinine -- history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early tropical Africa; title: Into Eurasia; title: Into the Americas; title: Bitter medicines; title: Toward global public health; title: Africa redux.