LEADER 04257nam 22006854a 450 001 9910454760003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-96660-6 010 $a9786611966607 010 $a0-226-77938-6 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226779386 035 $a(CKB)1000000000579801 035 $a(EBL)432301 035 $a(OCoLC)309871218 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000169374 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11153733 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000169374 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10202915 035 $a(PQKB)11724802 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123110 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432301 035 $a(DE-B1597)524602 035 $a(OCoLC)1058708155 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226779386 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432301 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265933 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196660 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000579801 100 $a20070412d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHealing the land and the nation$b[electronic resource] $emalaria and the Zionist project in Palestine, 1920-1947 /$fSandra M. Sufian 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (406 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-77935-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [349]-372) and index. 327 $aArchetypal 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. 330 $aA novel inquiry into the sociopolitical dimensions of public medicine, Healing the Land and the Nation traces the relationships between disease, hygiene, politics, geography, and nationalism in British Mandatory Palestine between the world wars. Taking up the case of malaria control in Jewish-held lands, Sandra Sufian illustrates how efforts to thwart the disease were intimately tied to the project of Zionist nation-building, especially the movement's efforts to repurpose and improve its lands. The project of eradicating malaria also took on a metaphorical dimension-erasing anti-Semitic stereotypes of the "parasitic" Diaspora Jew and creating strong, healthy Jews in Palestine. Sufian shows that, in reclaiming the land and the health of its people in Palestine, Zionists expressed key ideological and political elements of their nation-building project. Taking its title from a Jewish public health mantra, Healing the Land and the Nation situates antimalarial medicine and politics within larger colonial histories. By analyzing the science alongside the politics of Jewish settlement, Sufian addresses contested questions of social organization and the effects of land reclamation upon the indigenous Palestinian population in a decidedly innovative way. The book will be of great interest to scholars of the Middle East, Jewish studies, and environmental history, as well as to those studying colonialism, nationalism, and public health and medicine. 606 $aMalaria$zPalestine$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMalaria$zIsrael$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aZionism$zPalestine$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aZionism$zIsrael$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMalaria$xHistory 615 0$aMalaria$xHistory 615 0$aZionism$xHistory 615 0$aZionism$xHistory 676 $a614.5/32095694 700 $aSufian$b Sandra M$g(Sandra Marlene)$0896927 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454760003321 996 $aHealing the land and the nation$92004147 997 $aUNINA