The fever : how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years / Sonia Shah.

  • Shah, Sonia.
Date:
2010
  • Books

About this work

Description

Traces the centuries-long battle to treat and prevent malaria in numerous regions of the world while revealing how hundreds of millions of people are infected annually in spite of available preventions.

Publication/Creation

New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010.

Physical description

307 pages ; 24 cm

Contributors

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. (p. [243]-292) and index.

Contents

Malaria at our doorstep -- Birth of a killer -- Swept in malaria's current -- Malarial ecologies -- Pharmacological failure -- The karma of malaria -- Scientific solutions -- The disappeared -- The spraygun war -- The secret in the mosquito.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FX /SHA
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ISBN

  • 9780374230012
  • 0374230013