The Malaria Capers Tales of Parasites and People

by Desowitz, Robert S.

• ISBN13: 9780393310085
• ISBN10: 0393310086
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-06-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Why, Robert S. Desowitz asks, has biotechnical research on malaria produced so little when it had promised so much? An expert in tropical diseases, Desowtiz searches for answers in this provocative book.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	9	(13)
Introduction
Nothing Really Changes in Salata	13	(8)
I Kala Azar: The Long Anguish of the Black Sickness
A Child Dies in a Small Village	21	(10)
How the Government Disease Came to India	31	(9)
In Search of Kala Azar: Bedbugs and Other Red Herrings	40	(20)
New Knowledge, New Treatment---and New Epidemics	60	(20)
The World Health Organization to the Rescue	80	(14)
Was It Kala Azar That Killed the Dinosaur?	94	(13)
II Malaria: From Quinine to the Vaccine
In Another Village a Mother Dies	107	(16)
The M&M's: Monkey, Man, and Malaria	123	(20)
Mal'aria---The Bad News Airs	143	(10)
Malaria: From the Miasma to the Mosquito	153	(21)
Man and Mosquito: The Briton's Tale	174	(18)
Man and Mosquito: The Italian's Tale	192	(7)
``Treat the Patient, Not the Mosquito''---or Vice Versa	199	(22)
The First Trials and Tribulations of the Malaria Vaccine	221	(13)
The Selling of the Malaria Vaccine	234	(12)
The Sporozoite Follies	246	(11)
The Vaccine Felonies	257	(20)
Index	277