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Sufian, Sandra M.

Healing the land and the nation : malaria and the Zionist project in Palestine, 1920-1947 / Sandra M. Sufian. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - 1 online resource (xviii, 385 pages) : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-372) and index.

Archetypal landscape: healing the land and the nation in the Zionist imagination -- Pathological landscape: epidemiology and medical geography of malaria in Palestine -- Potential landscape: swamp drainage projects and the politics of settlement -- Technological landscape: the Jezreel Valley and the Huleh Valley projects -- Perceptual landscape: scientific experimentation, colonial medicine, and the medicalization of Palestine -- Cultural landscape: creating a culture of health through antimalaria education and propaganda -- Contested landscape: Palestinian Arabs and Zionist antimalaria projects -- Ecological landscape: old paradigms, new meanings.

A novel inquiry into the sociopolitical dimensions of public medicine, Healing the Land and the Nation traces the relationships between disease, hygiene, politics, geography, and nationalism in British Mandatory Palestine between the world wars. Taking up the case of malaria control in Jewish-held lands, Sandra Sufian illustrates how efforts to thwart the disease were intimately tied to the project of Zionist nation-building, especially the movement's efforts to repurpose and improve its lands. The project of eradicating malaria also took on a metaphorical dimension--erasing anti-Semitic stereo.


English.

ISBN: 9780226779386 0226779386 1281966606 9781281966605 9786611966607 6611966609

Standard No.: 10.7208/9780226779386 doi

LCCN:

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA770483 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: DNLM Uk

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Malaria--History--Palestine--20th century.
Malaria--History--Israel--20th century.
Zionism--History--Palestine--20th century.
Zionism--History--Israel--20th century.
Culture.
Politics, Practical.
Malaria--prevention & control
Colonialism--history
Culture
History, 20th Century
Politics
Public Health--history
Paludisme--Histoire--Palestine--20e siècle.
Paludisme--Histoire--Israël--20e siècle.
Culture.
Médecine--Histoire--20e siècle.
Politique.
culture note.
politics.
culture (concept)
MEDICAL--Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL--Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL--Public Health.
Politics, Practical
Culture
Malaria
Zionism

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Middle East.
Middle East
Moyen-Orient.
Middle East
Israel
Middle East--Palestine

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
History

LC Class. No.: RA644.M2 / S84 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 614.5/32095694

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WC 765 / S946h 2007