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Sandra M. Sufian

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

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ISBN: 9780226779355   Published December 2007

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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  

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