The History of Malaria in the Roman Campagna from Ancient Times
Author : Angelo Celli
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Page : 226 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Campagna di Roma (Italy)
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Author : Angelo Celli
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Page : 226 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Campagna di Roma (Italy)
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Author : Angelo Celli
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Page : pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : Robert Sallares
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 2002-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0199248508
Malaria and Rome is the first comprehensive study of malaria in ancient Italy since the research of the distinguished Italian malariologist Angelo Celli in the early twentieth century. It demonstrates the importance of disease patterns and history in understanding the demography of ancient populations. Robert Sallares argues that malaria became increasingly prevalent in Roman times in central Italy as a result of ecological change and alterations to the physical landscapesuch as deforestation. Making full use of contemporary sources and comparative material from other periods, he shows that malaria had a significant effect on mortality rates in certain regions of Roman Italy.Robert Sallares incorporates all the important advances made in many relevant fields since Celli's time. These include recent geomorphological research on the evolution of the coastal environments of Italy that were notorious for malaria in the past, biomolecular research on the evolution of malaria, ancient DNA as a new source of evidence for malaria in antiquity, the differentiation of mosquito species that permits understanding of the phenomenon of anophelism without malaria (where theclimate is optimal for malaria and Anopheles mosquitoes are present, but there is no malaria), and recent medical research on the interactions between malaria and other diseases.The argument develops with a careful interplay between the modern microbiology of the disease and the Greek and Latin literary texts. Both contemporary sources and comparative material from other periods are used to interpret the ancient sources. In addition to the medical and demographic effects on the Roman population, Malaria and Rome considers the social and economic effects of malaria, for example on settlement patterns and on agricultural systems. Robert Sallares also examinesthe varied human responses to and interpretations of malaria in antiquity, ranging from the attempts at rational understanding made by the Hippocratic authors and Galen to the demons described in the magical papyri.
Author : Angelo CELLI
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Page : 226 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 1933
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Author : William NORTH (B.A., F.C.S.)
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Page : 419 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 1896
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Author : Angelo Celli
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Page : 540 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 1900
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Author : Leo Barney Slater
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0813544386
Fighting around the globe, American soldiers were at high risk for contracting malaria, yet quinine - a natural cure - became hard to acquire. This historical study shows the roots and branches of an enormous drug development project during World War II.
Author : Jessica Howell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1108484689
Study of malaria in literature and culture illuminates the legacies of nineteenth-century colonial medicine within narratives of illness.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2004-09-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309165938
For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions of lives and cured billions of debilitating infections. Today, however, these drugs no longer work against the deadliest form of malaria that exists throughout the world. Malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africaâ€"currently just over one million per yearâ€"are rising because of increased resistance to the old, inexpensive drugs. Although effective new drugs called "artemisinins" are available, they are unaffordable for the majority of the affected population, even at a cost of one dollar per course. Saving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance examines the history of malaria treatments, provides an overview of the current drug crisis, and offers recommendations on maximizing access to and effectiveness of antimalarial drugs. The book finds that most people in endemic countries will not have access to currently effective combination treatments, which should include an artemisinin, without financing from the global community. Without funding for effective treatment, malaria mortality could double over the next 10 to 20 years and transmission will intensify.
Author : Frank M. Snowden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0300128436
At the outset of the twentieth century, malaria was Italy’s major public health problem. It was the cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunted literacy, limited political participation, and undermined the army. In this book Frank Snowden recounts how Italy became the world center for the development of malariology as a medical discipline and launched the first national campaign to eradicate the disease. Snowden traces the early advances, the setbacks of world wars and Fascist dictatorship, and the final victory against malaria after World War II. He shows how the medical and teaching professions helped educate people in their own self-defense and in the process expanded trade unionism, women’s consciousness, and civil liberties. He also discusses the antimalarial effort under Mussolini’s regime and reveals the shocking details of the German army’s intentional release of malaria among Italian civilians—the first and only known example of bioterror in twentieth-century Europe. Comprehensive and enlightening, this history offers important lessons for today’s global malaria emergency.