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Malaria : poverty, race, and public health in the United States / Margaret Humphreys.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Humphreys, Margaret, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Malaria--United States--History.
- Malaria.
- Malaria--history.
- History.
- United States.
- Public Health--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Malaria--history.
- United States.
- Public Health--history.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-189) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801866375
- OCLC:
- 45002078
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