This series publishes innovative studies that draw upon perspectives from the natural sciences and social sciences to shed light on important issues in global public health. The books in Perspectives on Global Health interest students and practitioners and are appropriate for adoption in undergraduate and graduate courses in global public health.
The inaugural volume in Perspectives on Global Health is The History of Blood Transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa, a collection of historical perspectives on problems of health and disease in Africa. It brings together the work of prominent scholars of the history of public health in Africa who investigate the interactions between people, pathogens, and their environments.
We are currently accepting submissions for the series, for details about submissions see the Submission Guidelines page.
The Histories of HIVs
The Emergence of the Multiple Viruses That Caused the AIDS Epidemics
Edited by William H. Schneider
In this interdisciplinary collection, experts provide the most complete description to date of the often ignored and underappreciated features of the history of the multiple human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) responsible for the global AIDS pandemic.
Medical | Epidemiology · HIV-AIDS · Medical | Public Health · Africa · African Studies
The Histories of HIVs
The Emergence of the Multiple Viruses That Caused the AIDS Epidemics
Edited by William H. Schneider
In this interdisciplinary collection, experts provide the most complete description to date of the often ignored and underappreciated features of the history of the multiple human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) responsible for the global AIDS pandemic.
Medical | Epidemiology · HIV-AIDS · Medical | Public Health · Africa · African Studies
The Riddle of Malnutrition
The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda
By Jennifer Tappan
More than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served to medicalize it, in the eyes of both biomedical personnel and Ugandans who brought their children to the hospital for treatment and care. Medicalization meant malnutrition came to be seen as a disease—as a medical emergency—not a preventable condition, further compromising nutritional health in Uganda.Rath
African History · Medical | Health Policy · History of Science · African Studies · Global Issues · Uganda
The Experiment Must Continue
Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940–2014
By Melissa Graboyes
The Experiment Must Continue is a beautifully articulated ethnographic history of medical experimentation in East Africa from 1940 through 2014. In it, Melissa Graboyes combines her training in public health and in history to treat her subject with the dual sensitivities of a medical ethicist and a fine historian.
History of Science · African Studies · Medical | Public Health · Social Science | Disease & Health Issues
Preaching Prevention
Born-Again Christianity and the Moral Politics of AIDS in Uganda
By Lydia Boyd
Preaching Prevention examines the controversial U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative to “abstain and be faithful” as a primary prevention strategy in Africa. This ethnography of the born-again Christians who led the new anti-AIDS push in Uganda provides insight into both what it means for foreign governments to “export” approaches to care and treatment and the ways communities respond to and repurpose such projects.
Anthropology · Religion | Religion, Politics & State · Medical | Health Policy · HIV-AIDS · International Studies · Global Issues
Global Health in Africa
Historical Perspectives on Disease Control
Edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L. A. Webb Jr.
Global Health in Africa is a first exploration of selected histories of global health initiatives in Africa. The collection addresses some of the most important interventions in disease control, including mass vaccination, large-scale treatment and/or prophylaxis campaigns, harm reduction efforts, and nutritional and virological research.The chapters in this collection are organized in three sections that evaluate linkages between past, present, and emergent.
Medical | Health Policy · African History · Anthropology · Global Issues · African Studies · Africa
The History of Blood Transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
By William H. Schneider
This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic. The introduction of transfusion held great promise for improving health, but like most new medical practices, transfusion needed to be adapted to the needs of sub-Saharan Africa, for which there was no analogous treatment in traditional African medicine.This
African History · Medical | Health Policy · HIV-AIDS · History of Science · History of Technology · African Studies
