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Landscapes of disease : malaria in modern Greece / Katerina Gardikas.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (x, 348 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789633861912
  • 9633861918
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RC163 .L363 2018
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Subject: Malaria existed in Greece since prehistoric times. Its prevalence fluctuated depending on climatic, socioeconomic and political changes. The book focuses on the factors that contributed to the spreading of the disease in the years between independent statehood in 1830 and the elimination of malaria in the 1970s. In fact, by the nineteenth century, Greece was the most malarious country in Europe and the one most heavily infected with its lethal form, falciparum malaria. Owing to pressures on the environment from economic development, agrarian colonisation and heightened mobility, the situation.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction RC163.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn984512116

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Series title page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF MAPS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER I. Malaria: An Ancient and Global Disease; CHAPTER II. The Fragmented Geography of the Disease; CHAPTER III. Malaria in Peace and War; CHAPTER IV. Patients, Doctors, and Cures; CONCLUSION; APPENDICES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX; Back cover.

Malaria existed in Greece since prehistoric times. Its prevalence fluctuated depending on climatic, socioeconomic and political changes. The book focuses on the factors that contributed to the spreading of the disease in the years between independent statehood in 1830 and the elimination of malaria in the 1970s. In fact, by the nineteenth century, Greece was the most malarious country in Europe and the one most heavily infected with its lethal form, falciparum malaria. Owing to pressures on the environment from economic development, agrarian colonisation and heightened mobility, the situation.

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