Landscapes of disease : malaria in modern Greece /

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Author / Creator:	Gardikas, Katerina, author.
Imprint:	Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	1 online resource (x, 348 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	CEU Press studies in the history of medicine ; volume VIII CEU Press studies in the history of medicine ; v. 8.
Subject:	Malaria -- Greece. Malaria. Malaria. Greece. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11676965

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ISBN:	9789633861912 9633861918 9786155211980
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2018).
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Gardikas, Katerina. Landscapes of disease. Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2017 9786155211980

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