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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'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.