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Healing the land and the nation : malaria and the Zionist project in Palestine, 1920-1947 /
A novel inquiry into the sociopolitical dimensions of public medicine, Healing the Land and the Nation traces the relationships between disease, hygiene, politics, geography, and nationalism in British Mandatory Palestine between the world wars. Taking up the case of malaria control in Jewish-held l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Archetypal landscape: healing the land and the nation in the Zionist imagination
- Pathological landscape: epidemiology and medical geography of malaria in Palestine
- Potential landscape: swamp drainage projects and the politics of settlement
- Technological landscape: the Jezreel Valley and the Huleh Valley projects
- Perceptual landscape: scientific experimentation, colonial medicine, and the medicalization of Palestine
- Cultural landscape: creating a culture of health through antimalaria education and propaganda
- Contested landscape: Palestinian Arabs and Zionist antimalaria projects
- Ecological landscape: old paradigms, new meanings.