LEADER 03918nam 22007334a 450 001 9910955668903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786611721558 010 $a9781281721556 010 $a1281721557 010 $a9780300128437 010 $a0300128436 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300128437 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472007 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171431 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000128904 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11143206 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000128904 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10077546 035 $a(PQKB)10017763 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000158003 035 $a(DE-B1597)485287 035 $a(OCoLC)1013948445 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300128437 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420051 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170077 035 $a(OCoLC)923589278 035 $a(dli)heb06181.0001.001 035 $a(MiU)MIU061810001001 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420051 035 $a(Perlego)1089529 035 $z(OCoLC)1013948445 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472007 100 $a20050509d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe conquest of malaria $eItaly, 1900-1962 /$fFrank M. Snowden 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 296 p.) )$cill., map 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780300108996 311 08$a0300108990 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-286) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Malaria: The "Italian National Disease" --$t2. From Miasma to Mosquito: The Rome School of Malariology --$t3. A Nation Mobilizes --$t4. From Quinine to Women's Rights: Hopes, Illusions, and Victories --$t5. The First World War and Epidemic Disease --$t6. Fascism, Racism, and Littoria --$t7. Creating Disaster: Nazism and Bioterror in the Pontine Marshes --$t8. Fighting Disaster: DDT and Old Weapons --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tGlossary --$tSelect Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aAt the outset of the twentieth century, malaria was Italy's major public health problem. It was the cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunted literacy, limited political participation, and undermined the army. In this book Frank Snowden recounts how Italy became the world center for the development of malariology as a medical discipline and launched the first national campaign to eradicate the disease. Snowden traces the early advances, the setbacks of world wars and Fascist dictatorship, and the final victory against malaria after World War II. He shows how the medical and teaching professions helped educate people in their own self-defense and in the process expanded trade unionism, women's consciousness, and civil liberties. He also discusses the antimalarial effort under Mussolini's regime and reveals the shocking details of the German army's intentional release of malaria among Italian civilians-the first and only known example of bioterror in twentieth-century Europe. Comprehensive and enlightening, this history offers important lessons for today's global malaria emergency. 606 $aMalaria$zItaly$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMalaria$xTreatment$zItaly$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMosquitoes$xControl$zItaly$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aMalaria$xHistory 615 0$aMalaria$xTreatment$xHistory 615 0$aMosquitoes$xControl$xHistory 676 $a614.5/32/00945 700 $aSnowden$b Frank M$g(Frank Martin),$f1946-$0140560 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955668903321 996 $aThe conquest of malaria$94352294 997 $aUNINA