Eradication

Author: Nancy Leys Stepan
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0801450586
Category: Medical

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The Gates Foundation announced in 2007 that their goal is malaria eradication; another of their priorities is polio eradication. Eradication means the complete elimination of a disease through deliberate human intervention. It stands for an absolute in public health.This book by the award-winning historian of medicine Nancy Leys Stepan is an accessible, beautifully written, and deeply researched examination of one of the most controversial issues in public health today But critics of eradication argue that the huge resources needed to achieve eradication could be better allocated toward developing primary health se

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