Download or read book Malaria a Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome Classic Reprint written by W. H. S. Jones and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Malaria a Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome The author of this very instructive and inter esting little book has asked me to write a short introduction to it. I can only hope that my foreword will not prove incongruous with a work over which he has spent so much enthusiastic labour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Malaria a Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome written by W. H. S. Jones and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Malaria a Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome This little book owes its being to the suggestions and encouragement of Mr. A. E. Shipley and Major Ross. Since there are few previous works on the same subject, a large amount of correspondence was necessary with authorities on ancient medicine, both British and Continental. A great part of this was undertaken by Mr. Shipley, and to him are due my most grateful thanks. Among other specialists who have given generous help must be mentioned Dr. E. T. Withington, Professor Clifford Allbutt and Professor E. V. Arnold. In addition to this, it seemed well to invite the direct cooperation of medical men. Mr. G. G. Ellett has added a chapter on malaria as a factor in morality, and Major Ross, besides supplying many notes, criticisms and comments, has written an introduction. The object of the writers has been to show how important it is to stamp out malaria as soon as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Challenging Malaria written by Byron B. Carson, III and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years after Ronald Ross discovered the link between malaria and mosquitos, American entomologist Leland Howard wrote of the "mosquito evil" that occurs when "everybody's business is nobody's business." Howard’s insight was largely ignored, but it captures what social scientists now refer to as the problem of collective action. When this problem persists in the context of malaria, individuals under-provide prevention and suffer from a higher prevalence of malaria. Imagine a group of people trying to drain a pond where mosquitoes breed. Everyone in the group faces an incentive to free ride, which can hinder their drainage efforts. Thus, when people fail to resolve issues related to collective action, they submit to the "mosquito evil" and, potentially, to malaria. This book explores Howard’s logic, the economics of collective action, and the history, epidemiology, and public health of malaria to analyze the conditions under which people privately resolve collective action problems associated with mosquito abatement and malaria prevention. Generally, people are more likely to resolve these problems when the benefits of abatement and prevention outweigh the costs. This logic is developed into a framework and applied to historical and modern-day issues related to malaria, including the lack or abundance of private prevention in the United States and in developing areas; malaria’s resurgence in countries like China, Venezuela, and Bangladesh; and the difficulties of large-scale insecticide-treated bed net campaigns. Given this framework, we should develop a greater appreciation for entrepreneurial responses, civil society, market processes, and private forms of collective action.
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Download or read book Birth Death and Motherhood in Classical Greece written by Nancy Demand and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1994-07 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Greek society foster social conditions, especially early marriage with its attendant early childbearing, that were known to be dangerous for both mother and child? What were the actual causes of death among women described as dying of childbirth in the Hippocratic Epidemics? Why did families choose to portray labor scenes on tombstones when the Greek commemorative tradition otherwise avoided reference to suffering and illness? In Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece, Nancy Demand offers the first comprehensive exploration of the social and cultural construction of childbirth in ancient Greece. Reading the ancient evidence in light of feminist theory, the Foucauldian notion of discursively constituted objects, medical anthropology, and anthropological studies of the modern Greek village, Demand discusses topics that include midwifery, abortion, attitudes of doctors toward women patients, and the treatment of women generally. For evidence, she relies primarily on the case histories in the Epidemics concerning women with complications in pregnancy, abortion, and childbirth. She also draws relevant details from cure records and dedications from healing sanctuaries, labor scenes depicted on tombstones, Aristophanic comedy, andPlatonic philosophy.
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