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To cast out disease : a history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951) / John Farley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (x, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraitsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199749089
  • 0199749086
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: To cast out disease.DDC classification:
  • 610/.7/2073 22
LOC classification:
  • R852 .F37 2004eb
NLM classification:
  • 2003 O-379
  • WA 11.1
Online resources:
Contents:
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The first stage: means to an end -- Ch. 3. Tuberculosis in France (1917-1924) -- Ch. 4. The first hookworm campaigns (1913-1920) -- Ch. 5. Retreat from hookworm (1920-1930) -- Ch. 6. Yellow Fever: from coast to jungle -- Ch. 7. Malaria: killing mosquitoes and anophelines (1915-1935) -- Ch. 8. World War II: DDT, typhus, and malaria -- Ch. 9. Malaria: the ultimate kill -- Ch. 10. Reorganization and research laboratories (1928-1940) -- Ch. 11. Yellow Fever vaccines: a slap in the face -- Ch. 12. Diseases for research -- Ch. 13. Frustrations in Sao Paulo; the wrong step in Rio -- Ch. 14. Northern lights: London and Toronto -- Ch. 15. Rough seas: Prague, Rome, Tokyo, and Calcutta -- Ch. 16. Postwar confusion: what to do next? -- Ch. 17. Conclusion: swinging pendulums.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The first stage: means to an end -- Ch. 3. Tuberculosis in France (1917-1924) -- Ch. 4. The first hookworm campaigns (1913-1920) -- Ch. 5. Retreat from hookworm (1920-1930) -- Ch. 6. Yellow Fever: from coast to jungle -- Ch. 7. Malaria: killing mosquitoes and anophelines (1915-1935) -- Ch. 8. World War II: DDT, typhus, and malaria -- Ch. 9. Malaria: the ultimate kill -- Ch. 10. Reorganization and research laboratories (1928-1940) -- Ch. 11. Yellow Fever vaccines: a slap in the face -- Ch. 12. Diseases for research -- Ch. 13. Frustrations in Sao Paulo; the wrong step in Rio -- Ch. 14. Northern lights: London and Toronto -- Ch. 15. Rough seas: Prague, Rome, Tokyo, and Calcutta -- Ch. 16. Postwar confusion: what to do next? -- Ch. 17. Conclusion: swinging pendulums.

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