Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States Pdf

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Release: 2001-09-25
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0801866375
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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• ISBN13: 9780801866371
• Condition: USED - Good
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In Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States, Margaret Humphreys presents the first book-length account of the parasitic, insect-borne disease that has infected millions and influenced settlement patterns, economic development, and the quality of life at every level of American society, especially in the south.Humphreys approaches malaria from three perspectives: the parasite's biological history, the medical response to it, and the patient's experience of the disease. It addresses numerous questions including how the parasite thrives and eventually becomes vulnerable, how professionals came to know about the parasite and learned how to fight them, and how people view the disease and came to the point where they could understand and support the struggle against it. 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 Download Malaria for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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