Healing the land and the nation : malaria and the Zionist project in Palestine, 1920-1947 / / Sandra M. Sufian.

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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:xviii, 385 p. :; ill., maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Archetypal 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.