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1 online resource (406 pages)
ISBN:
9780226779386
Content:
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 stereotypes of the "parasitic" Diaspora Jew and creating strong, healthy Jews in Palestine. Sufian shows that, in reclaiming the land and the health of its people in Palestine, Zionists expressed key ideological and political elements of their nation-building project. Taking its title from a Jewish public health mantra, Healing the Land and the Nation situates antimalarial medicine and politics within larger colonial histories. By analyzing the science alongside the politics of Jewish settlement, Sufian addresses contested questions of social organization and the effects of land reclamation upon the indigenous Palestinian population in a decidedly innovative way. The book will be of great interest to scholars of the Middle East, Jewish studies, and environmental history, as well as to those studying colonialism, nationalism, and public health and medicine.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- 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 People in the Zionist Imagination -- I. Draining the Swamp to Heal the Land -- chapter 2. Pathological Landscape: Epidemiology and the 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 and Propaganda -- chapter 7. Contested Landscape: Palestinian Arabs and Zionist Antimalaria Projects -- conclusion Ecological Landscape: Old Paradigms, New Meanings -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226779355
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780226779355
Additional Edition:
Print version Healing the Land and the Nation : Malaria and the Zionist Project in Palestine, 1920-1947
Language:
English
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