War and Disease: Biomedical Research on Malaria in the Twentieth Century

(Rutgers University Press) In this historical study, the author examines the discovery and development of anti-malarial drugs during World War II, when soldiers fighting all over the world were at high risk for malaria. To combat this disease the U.S. government initiated an anti-malarial research project at the National Research Council. Slater is a fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Applied Economics and the Study of Business Enterprise, a historian of biomedical sciences and technology, and a former visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History or Science.