The Malaria Capers Tales of Parasites and

Why, Robert S. Desowitz asks, has biotechnical research on malaria produced so little when it had promised so much? An expert in tropical diseases, Desowtiz searches for answers in this provocative book.

Acknowledgments

9

(13)

Introduction

Nothing Really Changes in Salata

13

(8)

I Kala Azar: The Long Anguish of the Black Sickness

A Child Dies in a Small Village

21

(10)

How the Government Disease Came to India

31

(9)

In Search of Kala Azar: Bedbugs and Other Red Herrings

40

(20)

New Knowledge, New Treatment---and New Epidemics

60

(20)

The World Health Organization to the Rescue

80

(14)

Was It Kala Azar That Killed the Dinosaur?

94

(13)

II Malaria: From Quinine to the Vaccine

In Another Village a Mother Dies

107

(16)

The M&M's: Monkey, Man, and Malaria

123

(20)

Mal'aria---The Bad News Airs

143

(10)

Malaria: From the Miasma to the Mosquito

153

(21)

Man and Mosquito: The Briton's Tale

174

(18)

Man and Mosquito: The Italian's Tale

192

(7)

``Treat the Patient, Not the Mosquito''---or Vice Versa

199

(22)

The First Trials and Tribulations of the Malaria Vaccine

221

(13)

The Selling of the Malaria Vaccine

234

(12)

The Sporozoite Follies

246

(11)

The Vaccine Felonies

257

(20)

Index

277

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