Nothing But Nets av Kirsten Moore-Sheeley

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<p><b>How insecticide-treated bed nets became a staple of global public health initiatives and reshaped health practices in Africa and beyond.</b></p><p>Distributed to millions of people annually across Africa and the global South, insecticide-treated bed nets have become a cornerstone of malaria control and twenty-first-century global health initiatives. Despite their seemingly obvious public health utility, however, these chemically infused nets and their rise to prominence were anything but inevitable.</p><p>In <i>Nothing But Nets</i>, Kirsten Moore-Sheeley untangles the complicated history of insecticide-treated nets as it unfolded transnationally and in Kenya specifically¿a key site of insecticide-treated net research¿to reveal how the development of this intervention was deeply enmeshed with the emergence of the contemporary global health enterprise. </p><p>While public health workers initially conceived of nets as a stopgap measure that could be tailored to impoverished, rural h