Journal article
“Going ‘the Last Mile’ to eliminate malaria” in Myanmar?
- Abstract:
-
This article explores the question of how malaria “ends” in Myanmar, since malaria has been categorized both as an epidemic and as being endemic on seemingly countless occasions. The example of malaria reveals some of the limitations of understanding a disease within a single category of experience, such as an “epidemic.” In the case of malaria, epidemic is a shifting term that is best understood as being the point at which health authorities decide to intervene in the disease, rather than as...
Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Authors
Funding
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Brepols Publishers Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Centaurus - Journal of the European Society for the History of Science Journal website
- Volume:
- 64
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 119-132
- Publication date:
- 2022-05-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-12-18
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
1600-0498
- ISSN:
-
0008-8994
Item Description
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Atsuko Naono
- Copyright date:
- 2022
- Rights statement:
- ©2022, The Author(s). Published by Brepols Publishers. This is an open access article made available under a CCby4.0 International License.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record