Malaria : poverty, race, and public health in the United States /
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Author / Creator: | Humphreys, Margaret, 1955- |
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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 |
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