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

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

Sandra M. Sufian

University of Chicago Press, c2007

  • : cloth

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

Contents of Works

  • 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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