Malaria : poverty, race, and public health in the United States /

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Author / Creator:Humphreys, Margaret, 1955-
Imprint:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:Malaria -- United States -- History.
Malaria -- ethnology.
African Continental Ancestry Group.
Poverty.
MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Contagious.
Malaria.
Malaria.
Sociale achterstand.
Sociale gezondheidszorg.
United States.
United States.
Verenigde Staten.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11117850
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ISBN:0801875994
9780801875991
9780801866371
0801866375
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-185) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Annotation In Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States, Margaret Humphreys presents the first book-length account of the parasitic, insect-borne disease that has infected millions and influenced settlement patterns, economic development, and the quality of life at every level of American society, especially in the south. Humphreys approaches malaria from three perspectives: the parasite's biological history, the medical response to it, and the patient's experience of the disease. It addresses numerous questions including how the parasite thrives and eventually becomes vulnerable, how professionals came to know about the parasite and learned how to fight them, and how people view the disease and came to the point where they could understand and support the struggle against it. 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.
Other form:Print version: Humphreys, Margaret, 1955- Malaria. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 0801866375