Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? Reviews

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2011-09-29
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0801450586
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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How shall we improve human health? One answer is: by eradication. 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. The eradication of disease might seem like an absolute good. But critics of eradication argue that the huge resources needed to achieve eradication could be better allocated toward developing primary health services and general improvement in health.This book aims to look at the benefits and drawbacks of single-minded efforts to rid the world of particular diseases, one at a time. The sweep of the book is impressive, from the origins of the idea of comple Download Eradication for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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