| Description |
1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Critical issues in health and medicine
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-241) and index. |
| Contents |
Quinine and the environment of disease -- Avian malaria -- New drugs -- Preparing for war -- Cooperation and coordination -- Trust and transition -- Chloroquine, wonder drug -- Lessons learned. |
| Summary |
Malaria is one of the leading killers in the world today. Though drugs against malaria have a long history, attempts to develop novel therapeutics spanned the twentieth century and continue today. In this historical study, Leo B. Slater shows the roots and branches of an enormous drug development project during World War II. Fighting around the globe, American soldiers were at high risk for contracting malaria, yet quinine-a natural cure-became harder to acquire. A U.S. government-funded antimalarial program, initiated by the National Research Council, brought together diverse laboratories and. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Malaria -- Treatment -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Malaria -- Treatment. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Malaria. |
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Malaria -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Malaria -- Research. |
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Antimalarials -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Antimalarials. |
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Chloroquine -- Therapeutic use -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Chloroquine. |
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Malaria -- history. |
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Biomedical Research -- history. |
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History, 20th Century. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Slater, Leo Barney, 1963- War and disease. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009 9780813544380 0813544386 (DLC) 2008013961 (OCoLC)217263392 |
| ISBN |
9780813546469 (electronic book) |
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081354646X (electronic book) |
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9780813544380 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0813544386 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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