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Science 19 July 2002:
Vol. 297. no. 5580, p. 342
DOI: 10.1126/science.1073300

Books

MEDICINE:
More Bark Than Bites

A review by Marcia L. Triunfol


The Fever Trail In Search of the Cure for Malaria
Mark Honigsbaum
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2002. 341 pp. $25. ISBN 0-374-15469-4.

The Fever Trail The Hunt for the Cure for Malaria
Macmillan, London, 2001. 363 pp. £18.99. ISBN 0-333-90185-1.

Honigsbaum anchors this history of the search to find a cure for malaria on the quinine) and efforts of the British to obtain the cinchona tree (the source of transport it to their colonies.
The author is at Science Controversies Online: Partnerships in Education, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20005, USA. E-mail: mtriunfo{at}aaas.org

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