| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 385 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-372) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Malaria -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century.
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Malaria. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Malaria -- Israel -- History -- 20th century.
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Israel. |
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Zionism -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century.
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Zionism. |
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Zionism -- Israel -- History -- 20th century.
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Malaria -- prevention & control. |
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Colonialism -- history. |
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Culture. |
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History, 20th Century. |
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Politics. |
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Public Health -- history. |
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Middle East. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sufian, Sandra M. (Sandra Marlene). Healing the land and the nation. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 9780226779355 0226779351 (DLC) 2007015180 (OCoLC)123332087 |
| ISBN |
9780226779386 (electronic book) |
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0226779386 (electronic book) |
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9780226779355 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226779351 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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