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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780197503321

Autore

Humphreys Margaret <1955->

Titolo

Malaria [[electronic resource] ] : poverty, race, and public health in the United States / / Margaret Humphreys

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-8018-7599-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Disciplina

616.9/362/00973

Soggetti

Malaria - United States - History

Public health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 1 The Pestilence That Stalks in Darkness 8 -- 2 The Mist Rises: Malaria in the Nineteenth Century 30 -- 3 Race, Poverty, and Place 49 -- 4 Making Malaria Control Profitable 69 -- 5 "A Ditch in Time Saves Quinine?" 94 -- 6 Popular Perceptions of Health, Disease, and Malaria 113 -- 7 Denouement 140.