Healing the land and the nation malaria and the Zionist project in Palestine, 1920-1947

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

Author/creator	Sufian, Sandra M. (Sandra Marlene)
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Chicago : University of Chicago Press,
Description	xviii, 385 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Malaria--Palestine --History --20th century. Malaria--Israel --History --20th century. Zionism--Palestine --History --20th century. Zionism--Israel --History --20th century. Malaria--prevention & control --Middle East. Colonialism--history --Middle East. Culture--Middle East. History, 20th Century--Middle East. Politics--Middle East. Public Health--history --Middle East.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-372) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2007015180
ISBN	9780226779355 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0226779351 (cloth : alk. paper)

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