Healing the land and the nation : malaria and the Zionist project in Palestine, 1920-1947 / Sandra M. Sufian.
- Sufian, Sandra M. (Sandra Marlene)
- Date:
- 2007
- Books
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Publication/Creation
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Physical description
xviii, 385 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contributors
Notes
This appears to be a later version of her 1999 PhD thesis: Healing the land and the nation : malaria and the Zionist project in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1947.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-372) and index.
Contents
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.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineFX.291.AA9Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780226779355
- 0226779351