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antisemitism
Author_Sandra M. Sufian
british mandatory palestine
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colonialism
diaspora jew
disease
environmental history
epidemiology
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geography
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hygiene
improvement
indigenous
jewish state
jezreel
judaism
land reclamation
malaria
medicine
middle east
nation building
nationalism
nonfiction
parasites
politics
public health
settlement
social organization
swamp drainage
zionism
Product details
- ISBN 9780226779355
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2007
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A novel inquiry into the sociopolitical dimensions of public medicine, "Healing the Land and the Nation" traces the relationships between disease, hygiene, politics, geography, and nationalism in British Mandatory Palestine between the world wars. Taking up the case of malaria control in Jewish-held lands, Sandra M. Sufian illustrates how efforts to thwart the disease were intimately tied to the project of Zionist nation-building, especially the movement's efforts to repurpose and improve its lands. The project of eradicating malaria also took on a metaphorical dimension - erasing anti-Semitic stereotypes of the "parasitic" Diaspora Jew and creating strong, healthy Jews in Palestine. Sufian shows that, in reclaiming the land and the health of its people in Palestine, Zionists expressed key ideological and political elements of their nation-building project. Taking its title from a Jewish public health mantra, "Healing the Land and the Nation" situates antimalarial medicine and politics within larger colonial histories.
By analyzing the science along-side the politics of Jewish settlement, Sufian addresses contested questions of social organization and the effects of land reclamation upon the indigenous Palestinian population in a decidedly innovative way. The book will be of great interest to scholars of the Middle East, Jewish studies, and environmental history, as well as to those studying colonialism, nationalism, public health, and medicine.
Sandra M. Sufian is assistant professor of medical history and the humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
