Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Diagnosis, Treatment, and Cure -- Pathogens, Diseases, and Diagnosis -- 1 The Power of Sight -- The Microbial Pathogen, a Microscopic Organism That Causes Disease -- Importation of Scientific Medicine to Africa -- 2 Fever: Is It Malaria? -- Fever Is Malaria, or Is It? -- Plasmodium falciparum -- Diagnostic Tests for Malaria -- "The billion-dollar malaria effort is flying blind" -- 3 Fever: Beyond Malaria -- Parsing "Typhomalaria" -- 4 Drug Resistance -- Neonatal Infections -- Divining withoutSeeds -- The Feasibility of Susceptibility Testing -- 5 Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers -- Portrait of a Hospital -- Viral Portraits -- The Ugly Picture: Viruses in Hospitals -- Gulu Learned Little from Kikwit -- Doctors at the Mercy of Lassa Virus -- Bringing the DiagnosisHome -- 6 Detecting Covert Infection ahead of the Final Diagnosis -- Surveillance and Denial of HIV/AIDS -- Death Emerges from Its Pouch -- Diagnosis, "Cure," and Treatment of HIV/AIDS -- Optimal Laboratory Testing Promotes Control -- 7 Diagnostic Certainty and Disease Control -- Eradication Successes -- Eradication Challenges -- Controlling the Ineradicable -- The Ultimate Challenge of Malaria -- 8 Origins and Outlook of Diagnostic Insufficiency in Africa -- Portable Medicine, a Colonial Legacy -- Accepting and Expecting Diagnostic Insufficiency -- Facing Forward -- One Model for Diagnostic Development -- Conclusion The Feasibility of Laboratory Diagnosis in African Settings -- Diagnostic Mythology -- The Real Roadblock: Lack of Sustained Commitment -- A Road Map for Africa to Advocate Her Own Diagnosis -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.