Stories
- In pictures
The cinchona tree, malaria and colonisation
Ever since the discovery of cinchona bark as a treatment for malaria in 17th-century South America, the cinchona tree has accompanied European colonisation around the world. Kim Walker tracks the human and ecological impact of this global commodity.
- In pictures
How an animation educated the army
In a 1940s cartoon intended to persuade US troops to take malaria medication, the makers pitted a clodhopping soldier against a wily mosquito. If only Private SNAFU had followed the government’s advice.
- Article
Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
- Article
Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
Catalogue
- Books
Malaria : consolidating the gains : report for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (APPMG) 2011-2012 / All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (APPMG).
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (APPMG)Date: 2012- Videos
Malaria : defeating the curse.
Date: 2005- Books
Malaria / E.P. de Bellard.
Bellard, E. P. de.Date: 1925- Books
Malaria / G. Pasvol, guest editor.
Date: 1995- Books
Malaria / scientific editor, S. Cohen.
Date: 1982