Malaria : poverty, race, and public health in the United States / / Margaret Humphreys
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| Autore: |
Humphreys Margaret <1955->
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| Titolo: |
Malaria : poverty, race, and public health in the United States / / Margaret Humphreys
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616.9/362/00973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Malaria - United States - History |
| Public health | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Malaria |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-7599-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810945403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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