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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810945403321

Autore

Humphreys Margaret <1955->

Titolo

Malaria : 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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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.

Sommario/riassunto

In addition Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States argues that malaria control was central to the evolution of local and federal intervention in public health, and demonstrates the complex interaction between poverty, race, and geography in determining the fate of malaria.