Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina

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Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina examines the dramatic yet mostly forgotten history of malaria regulate in northwest Argentina. Carter traces the evolution of malaria science and policy in Argentina from the disease’s emergence as a social problem in the 1890s to its effective eradication by 1950. Malaria-regulate proponents saw the campaign as a part of a larger project of constructing a brand new identity for Argentina. Insofar as development meant building a more productive, rational, and hygienic society, the perceptions of a culturally backwards and disease-ridden interior prevented Argentina from joining the ranks of “brand new” nations. The path to eradication, on the other hand, used to be not easy as a result of complicated public health politics, beside the point application of foreign malaria regulate strategies, and a habitual misreading of the distinctive ecology of malaria in the northwest, especially the unique characteristics of the local mosquito vector. Homegrown scientific expertise, a populist public health agenda, and an infusion of new technologies in the end brought a rapid end to malaria’s scourge, if not the cure for regional underdevelopment.

Enemy in the Blood sheds light on the regularly neglected history of northwest Argentina’s interior, adds to critical perspectives on the history of development and public health in brand new Latin The usa, and demonstrates the merits of integrative socialenvironmental research.

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