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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.
- Public health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-7599-4
- OCLC:
- 923190617
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