Eradication
Subtitle: ridding the world of diseases forever?
By: Nancy Leys Stepan
Publisher: Cornell Univeristy Press; Cornell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ithaca, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780801450587
Subjects: Health promotion; Preventive Medicine; Epidemics; History; Prevention; Communicable diseases
Description: 309 p. : 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-299) and index.
Table of contents: title: Eradication and public health; title: Imperial origins; title: Paradoxes: the Rockefeller Era; title: Post-war: a capacity for fanaticism; title: The end of malaria in the world?; title: The last inch: smallpox eradication; title: Controversies: eradication today.