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The Conquest of Malaria - Italy, 1900-1962 (Paperback)
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The Conquest of Malaria - Italy, 1900-1962 (Paperback)
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At the outset of the twentieth century, malaria was Italy's major
public health problem. It was the cause of low productivity,
poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunted literacy,
limited political participation, and undermined the army. In this
book Frank Snowden recounts how Italy became the world center for
the development of malariology as a medical discipline and launched
the first national campaign to eradicate the disease. Snowden
traces the early advances, the setbacks of world wars and Fascist
dictatorship, and the final victory against malaria after World War
II. He shows how the medical and teaching professions helped
educate people in their own self-defense and in the process
expanded trade unionism, women's consciousness, and civil
liberties. He also discusses the antimalarial effort under
Mussolini's regime and reveals the shocking details of the German
army's intentional release of malaria among Italian civilians-the
first and only known example of bioterror in twentieth-century
Europe. Comprehensive and enlightening, this history offers
important lessons for today's global malaria emergency.
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