Enemy in the blood [ malaria, environment, and development in Argentina

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...

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Main Author: Carter, Eric D. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University of Alabama Press , c2012
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505 0 |a 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 Peron? : the politics and technologies of malaria eradication 
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