Healing the Land and the Nation
Malaria and the Zionist Project in Palestine, 1920-1947
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Table of Contents

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 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
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
Review Quotes
Nancy Gallagher | H-Net Review
"A fascinating book that clearly demonstates the complex and important connections between disease, health, politics, and national mythology."
Geremy Forman | International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
"Healing the Land is an academic exploration of a hitherto underresearched topic of historical and geographical significance and therefore makes an important contribution to the scholarship. . . . [It] is a pleasure to read . . . both because it is beautifully writen and because it establishes its relevance to modern-day Israel. . . . Healing the Land will be of great interest to students and scholars of medical history, colonial history, and historical geograpjhy."
Thomes P. Weber | The British Journal for the History of Science
"Sufian is less concerned with malaria as a public health challenge that interacts with and participates in shaping a cultural, social and economic context than with the way Zionist images of Palestine and its Jewish and Arab inhabitants impacted anti-malaria policies and their implementation during the Mandate period...In her exceptionally well-documented study Sufian shows how the Zionist movement used malaria eradication efforts to build a national mythology of the Jewish homeland."
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