The Power of Parasites - Malaria as (un)conscious strategy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

This book describes how malaria both frustrates and facilitates life for Indigenous Pa lawan communities living in the forested foothills of the municipality of Bataraza on the island of Palawan in the Philippines. Tracing the arc of malaria on the archipelago from colonial encounters to the present day, it examines the ways in which malaria parasites have become entangled in contemporary lives. It uniquely explores the experiences of local government leaders working towards sustainably developing this last ecological frontier, health workers trying to meet international targets to eliminate malaria, and Pa lawan people trying to keep their bodies, social relations and the cosmos in careful balance. In exquisite detail, Dr Dalia Iskander shows how malaria emerged from, and was intrinsic to, a whole host of strategically-orientated social practices that were enacted in as well as around the disease's name, as people worked day-to-day to gain power in different guises in different arenas.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	December 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Dalia Iskander
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	217
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-981-16-6763-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology
LSN:	981-16-6763-2
Barcode:	9789811667633

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