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, c2001.
Description:xi, 196 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Malaria -- United States -- History.
Malaria.
United States.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4531558
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ISBN:0801866375
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-189) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Pestilence That Stalks in Darkness
  • 2. The Mist Rises: Malaria in the Nineteenth Century
  • 3. Race, Poverty, and Place
  • 4. Making Malaria Control Profitable
  • 5. "A Ditch in Time Saves Quinine?"
  • 6. Popular Perceptions of Health, Disease, and Malaria
  • 7. Denouement
  • Notes
  • Note on Sources
  • Index