Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40078936›Full record

ArticleCambridge prisms. Extinction2025

Parasites and plantations: Disease, environment and society in efforts to induce extinction of hookworm in Jamaica, 1919-1936.

Jonathan D Roberts, Lorna L Waddington, Rupert J Quinnell, Graham Huggan, Alison M Dunn

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Cambridge prisms. Extinction, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2026
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jonathan D RobertsSchool of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4092-1491
Lorna L WaddingtonSchool of History, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Rupert J QuinnellSchool of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Graham HugganSchool of English, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Alison M DunnSchool of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Studies of extinction typically focus on unintended losses of biodiversity and culture. This study, however, examines an attempt to induce extinction of a parasite: human hookworm (

Indexed as

anthropogenic impactsCaribbeanclimatediseaseecologyepidemiologyextinctionhookwormJamaicamedical historyneglected tropical diseasesplantationocenesoil-transmitted helmintiases

Identifiers

PMID40078936
PMCPMC11895711

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.