TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carter,Eric D.
TI  - Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina
SN  - 9780817385958
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Tuscaloosa
PB  - University of Alabama Press
KW  - Malaria
KW  - Argentina
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Public health
KW  - Control
KW  - Medicine
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Sickness in the Land; 1. A Cure for Backwardness? : The Rationale for Malaria Control; 2. Launching the Campaign; 3. Foreign, National, and Local Influences on Malaria Control; 4. "Think like a Mosquito": Turning the Tide Against Malaria; 5. "God Bless General Per�on": the Politics and Technologies of Malaria Eradication; Conclusion: Malaria, Geography, and Lessons for Today; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; Note on Sources; Bibliography; Index
N2  - Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina examines the dramatic yet mostly forgotten history of malaria control in northwest Argentina. Carter traces the evolution of malaria science and policy in Argentina from the disease & rsquo;s emergence as a social problem in the 1890s to its effective eradication by 1950. Malaria-control proponents saw the campaign as part of a larger project of constructing a modern identity for Argentina. Insofar as development meant building a more productive, rational, and hygienic society, the perceptions of a culturally backwards and d
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