Randall M. Packard is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa, The Making of a Tropical Disease; A Short History of Malaria; A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples, and coeditor of Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda, also published by Johns Hopkins.