Healing the Land and the Nation
Malaria and the Zionist Project in Palestine, 1920-1947
384 pages, 34 halftones, 7 line drawings, 5 tables 6 x 9
©
2007
Cloth $40.00
ISBN: 9780226779355
Published December 2007
List of Figures and Tables List of Measures and Currency Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations INTRODUCTION A History of Malaria and Zionist Nationalism in Mandatory Palestine CHAPTER 1. Archetypal Landscape: Healing the Land and the Nation in the Zionist Imagination
I. Draining the Swamp to Heal the Land CHAPTER 2. Pathological Landscape: Epidemiology and Medical Geography of Malaria in Palestine CHAPTER 3. Potential Landscape: Swamp Drainage Projects and the Politics of Settlement CHAPTER 4. Technological Landscape: The Jezreel Valley and the Huleh Valley Projects CHAPTER 5. Perceptual Landscape: Scientific Experimentation, Colonial Medicine and the Medicalization of Palestine
II. Fighting Malaria to Heal the Jewish Nation CHAPTER 6. Cultural Landscape: Creating a Culture of Health through Antimalaria Education CHAPTER 7. Contested Landscape: Arab-Jewish Conflict and Cooperation in Antimalaria Projects CONCLUSION Ecological Landscape: Old Paradigms, New Meanings
Bibliography Index
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