Healing the land and the nation : malaria and the Zionist project in Palestine, 1920-1947 / Sandra M. Sufian.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

xviii, 385 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-372) and index.