The historical ecology of malaria in Ethiopia : deposing the spirits /

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Author / Creator:	McCann, James, 1950- author.
Imprint:	Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2014] ©2014
Description:	1 online resource : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Series in ecology and history Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
Subject:	Malaria -- Ethiopia -- History. Malaria -- Ethiopia -- Prevention. Malaria -- history. Malaria -- prevention & control. Ecology -- history. History, 19th Century. History, 20th Century. History, 21st Century. Malaria. Malaria -- Prevention. Ethiopia. Ethiopia. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11243771

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ISBN:	9780821445136 0821445138 9780821421468 0821421468 9780821421475 0821421476 0821445138
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africa's most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology of the disease through the science of landscape change. All malaria is local. Instead of examining the disease at global or continental scale, McCann investigates malaria's adaptation and persistence in a single region, Ethiopia, over time and at several contrasting sites. Malaria has evolved along with humankind and has adapted to even modern-day technologica.
Other form:	Print version: McCann, James, 1950- Historical ecology of malaria in Ethiopia 9780821421468

Table of Contents:

Malaria's metaphor : a chess game or a square dance
Ethiopia's malaria in the age of "the bark"
Mindscapes of malaria : miasma in two worlds
Flight of the valkyries : malaria ecology in the headwaters of the Nile
Tragedy of the Jeep, 1958-1991 : hope and the return to the drawing board
Malaria modern : 1998, the shivering fever reborn
She sings : a mosquito's-eye view of malaria
The dance continues : eradication, vaccine, and malaria's ecology of persistence
Afterword : Rosa's story.

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