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857355
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Stepan, Nancy
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| Title & Author
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Eradication : : ridding the world of diseases forever? /\ Nancy Leys Stepan.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Reaktion Books,, 2011.
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, ©2011
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1 online resource (309 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1306269059
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: 186189967X
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: 9781306269056
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: 9781861899675
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1861898614
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9781861898616
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Eradication and public health -- Imperial origins -- Paradoxes: the Rockerfeller Era -- Post-war: a capacity for fanaticism -- The end of malaria in the world? -- The last inch: smallpox eradication -- Controversies: eradication today.
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| Abstract
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'Eradication' is a history of the attempts to rid the world of diseases such as yellow fever, malaria, smallpox, and polio. Nancy Leys Stepan covers all the major eradication campaigns, from the early twentieth century to the present day.
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Soper, Fred Lowe,1893-1977.
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Soper, Fred Lowe,1893-1977
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Soper, Fred Lowe.
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Communicable diseases-- Prevention-- History.
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Epidemics-- Prevention-- History.
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Health promotion-- History.
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Medicine, Preventive-- History.
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Disease Eradication.
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Preventive Medicine-- history.
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Public Health.
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Ausrottung
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Communicable diseases-- Prevention.
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Epidemics-- Prevention.
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Epidemie
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Diseases-- General.
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Health promotion.
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MEDICAL-- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL-- Diseases.
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MEDICAL-- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL-- Internal Medicine.
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Medicine, Preventive.
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Vektor
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Communicable Disease Control-- history.
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History, 19th Century.
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History, 20th Century.
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History, 21st Century.
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| Dewey Classification
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616.9045
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| LC Classification
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RA643.S74 2011eb
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| NLM classification
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2011 K-070
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WA 11.1
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