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The Politics of International Health

The Children's Vaccine Initiative and the Struggle to Develop Vaccines for the Third World

By: William A. Muraskin

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The Politics of International Health

The Children's Vaccine Initiative and the Struggle to Develop Vaccines for the Third World

By: William A. Muraskin

Tracing the history of the Children's Vaccine Initiative (CVI), this book examines its successes and failures in promoting the development of both new and improved vaccines for the Third World. The CVI has achieved many successes, including making vaccination a top international public sector priority. Most of its failures have stemmed from the often bitter competition between the fledgling Initiative and the notoriously turf-conscious and inefficient World Health Organization (WHO), over their respective roles in championing vaccines. Vaccines are the most inexpensive means of improving the health and lowering the mortality of people in the Third World, where infectious diseases kill millions of children every year. As a result of the biotechnology revolution, it is possible that a whole array of new vaccines can be created for diseases which are not yet preventable. What has stood in the way of this major medical breakthrough has been that vaccine "product development" has been in the hands of commercial companies, whose activities are dominated by the need for maximizing profit, which the Third World poor cannot generate.

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SUNY Press

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0791439992

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9780791439999

Sun Ra's Chicago

Afrofuturism and the City

By: William Sites

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Sun Ra's Chicago

Afrofuturism and the City

By: William Sites

“Sites provides crucial context on how Chicago’s Afrocentrist philosophy, religion, and jazz scenes helped turn Blount into Sun Ra.” —Chicago Reader Sun Ra (1914–93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an interstellar cosmology that claimed the planet Saturn as his true home. In Sun Ra’s Chicago, William Sites brings this visionary musician back to earth—specifically to the city’s South Side, where from 1946 to 1961 he lived and relaunched his career. The postwar South Side was a hotbed of unorthodox religious and cultural activism: Afrocentric philosophies flourished, storefront prophets sold “dream-book bibles,” and Elijah Muhammad was building the Nation of Islam. It was also an unruly musical crossroads where the man then known as Sonny Blount drew from an array of intellectual and musical sources—from radical nationalism, revisionist Christianity, and science fiction to jazz, blues, Latin dance music, and pop exotica—to construct a philosophy and performance style that imagined a new identity and future for African Americans. Sun Ra’s Chicago shows that late twentieth-century Afrofuturism emerged from a deep, utopian engagement with the city—and that by excavating the postwar black experience of Sun Ra’s South Side milieu, we can come to see the possibilities of urban life in new ways. “Four stars . . . Sites makes the engaging argument that the idiosyncratic jazz legend’s penchant for interplanetary journeys and African American utopia was in fact inspired by urban life right on Earth.” —Spectrum Culture

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322

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University of Chicago Press

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022673224X

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9780226732244

The African-American Odyssey Media Research Update

By: Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History Darlene Clark Hine,Darlene Clark Hine,William C. Hine,Stanley Harrold

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The African-American Odyssey Media Research Update

By: Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History Darlene Clark Hine,Darlene Clark Hine,William C. Hine,Stanley Harrold

For one/two-semester, undergraduate courses in African-American History, African-American Studies, and United States History. The Media and Research update edition includes a new CD-ROM-bound into every book-- that includes over 150 primary source documents in African American history each accompanied by essay questions. In addition, the CD ROM also contains media-rich activities that explore key episodes and developments. Finally, free access to Research Navigator is included in the Evaluating Online resources booklet that is packaged with all new copies of the text. With it students can access this powerful research tool with one site. Written by leading scholars, The African-American Odyssey is a clear and comprehensive narrative of African-American history, from its African roots to the 21st century. This text places African-American history at the center, and in the context, of American History.

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372

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Prentice Hall

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0131899317

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9780131899315

Middle-Class Blacks in a White Society

Prince Hall Freemansonry in America

By: William Alan Muraskin

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Middle-Class Blacks in a White Society

Prince Hall Freemansonry in America

By: William Alan Muraskin

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

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Univ of California Press

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0520331788

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9780520331785

Book's by William A. Muraskin

The Politics of International Health

The Politics of International Health

Sun Ra's Chicago

Sun Ra's Chicago

The African-American Odyssey Media Research Update

The African-American Odyssey Media Research Update

Middle-Class Blacks in a White Society

Middle-Class Blacks in a White Society

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