Literature Guide: Malaria
WCIU Journal: Health and Disease Topic
Aug 27, 2018
Compiled by Timothy Skinner
Library of Congress Classification
QR 201 .M3 (Microbiology)
RC 156-166 (Internal medicine)
RA 644 M2 (Public health)
Dewey Decimal Classification
616 Diseases
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Avian malaria
Blackwater fever
Cerebral malaria
Malaria
Malariotherapy
Reference Books with Relevant Articles or Chapters
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
The Travel & Tropical Medicine Manual
Periodical Articles
Fairchild, Graham. 1944. “Life Story of the Mosquito.” National Geographic (February): 180-95.
Nielsen, Lewis T. 1979. “Mosquitoes, the Mighty Killers.” National Geographic (September):
427-40.
Phillips, R. S. 1992“Vaccination against Malaria.” Immunobiology 184: 240-62.
Showalter, William Joseph. 1922. “Map-Changing Medicine.” National Geographic (September): 303-30.
_______. 1914. “Redeeming the Tropics.” National Geographic (March): 344-64.
Webb, James L. A., Jr. 2005. “Malaria and the Peopling of Early Tropical Africa.” Journal of World History 16, no. 3: 269-91.
Wyler, D. J. 1993. “Malaria Chemoprophylaxis for the Traveler.” New England Journal of Medicine 329: 31-37.
Books
Bruce-Chwatt, L. J. 1985. Essential Malariology. 2d ed. London: Heinemann.
Desowitz, Robert S., 1991. Malaria Capers: More Tales of Parasites and People, Research, and Reality. New York: W. W. Norton.
Doolan, Denise L. 2002. Malaria Methods and Protocols. New York: Humana Press.
Duffy, Patrick E., and Michael Fried. 2001. Malaria in Pregnancy: Deadly Parasite, Susceptible Host. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Gardikas, Katerina. 2018. Landscapes of Disease: Malaria in Modern Greece. Budapest, Hungary: Central European University Press.
Gilles, Herbert M. 1991. Management of Severe and Complicated Malaria: A Practical Handbook. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.
Harrison, Gordon A. 1978. Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Man: A History of the Hostilities Since 1880. New York: Dutton.
Herms, William Brodbeck. 2011. Malaria: Cause and Control. Pembroke Pines, FL: Ulan Press.
Humphreys, Margaret. 2001. Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Jarcho, Saul. 1993. Quinine’s Predecessor: Francesco Torti and the Early History of Cinchona. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Litsios, Socrates. 1996. The Tomorrow of Malaria. Karori, NZ: Pacific Press.
Matthews, Graham. 2011. Integrated Vector Management: Controlling Vectors of Malaria and Other Insect Vector Borne Diseases. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
McCann, James C. 2015. The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the Spirits. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
McNeill, J. R. 2010. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Oaks, Stanley C., Jr., et al, eds. 1991. Malaria: Obstacles and Opportunities. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Packard, Randall M. 2011. The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Poser, C. M., and G. W. Bruyn. 1999. An Illustrated History of Malaria. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Reilly, Benjamin. 2015. Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
Rocco, Fiammetta. 2012. The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria, Medicine, and the Cure that Changed the World. New York: HarperCollins.
Rowland, John. 1963. The Mosquito Man: The Story of Sir Ronald Ross. San Francisco, CA: Roy Publishers (Open Library).
Sallares, Robert. 2002. Malaria and Rome: A History of Malaria in Ancient Italy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Sherman, Irwin W. 2005. Molecular Approaches to Malaria. Washington, D.C.: ASM Press.
Shore, Bill. 2010. The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria. New York: PublicAffairs.
Wahlgren, Mats, and Peter Perlmann. 1999. Malaria: Cause and Control. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Webb, James L. A. 2009. Humanity’s Burden: A Global History of Malaria. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Wernsdorfer, W. H., and I. McGregor, eds. 1988. Malaria: Principles and Practice of Malariology. New York: Churchill Livingstone.
Wirth, Dyann, and Pedro L. Alonso. 2017. Malaria: Biology in an Era of Eradication. Cold Spring Harbor: Laboratory Press.
Websites
Timothy Skinner, MLS, is the Librarian for William Carey International University and a member of Frontier Ventures.