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public financial resources to the latter areas and away from family planning services with uneven success. The author successfully navigates these overlapping layers of social, political and economic interest, and interprets the Peruvian experience in its particularities but also within patterns that emerged in Latin American–U.S. relations. In all of this and from multiple directions, A Histor...

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the cover picture of an attendant spraying a powerful hose of water on a naked patient), de Young generally makes an effort to outline the ideas behind therapeutics and to put them in context. She observes, throughout, that physicians articulated their desire to help incurable patients, which helps to explain some of the more desperate interventions she describes (although, occasionally, she re...

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that the costs of post-eradication surveillance could dwarf initial expenditures.) If 25% of childhood mortality were attributable to malaria, reasons for caution in intervention dissipate. The concern about harm that might be done to adults whose acquired immunity could be compromised was hardly considered. Malariologists might elect utilitarianism as their chosen professional ethics, their br...

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