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The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia - Deposing the Spirits (Paperback)
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The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia - Deposing the Spirits (Paperback)
Series: Series in Ecology and History
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Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic
force of nature and Africa’s most deadly and debilitating malady.
James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative
terms and explains the history and ecology of the disease through
the science of landscape change. All malaria is local. Instead of
examining the disease at global or continental scale, McCann
investigates malaria’s adaptation and persistence in a single
region, Ethiopia, over time and at several contrasting sites.
Malaria has evolved along with humankind and has adapted to even
modern-day technological efforts to eradicate it or to control its
movement. Insecticides, such as DDT, drug prophylaxis, development
of experimental vaccines, and even molecular-level genetic
manipulation have proven to be only temporary fixes. The failure of
each stand-alone solution suggests the necessity of a comprehensive
ecological understanding of malaria, its transmission, and its
persistence, one that accepts its complexity and its local dynamism
as fundamental features. The story of this disease in Ethiopia
includes heroes, heroines, witches, spirits—and a very clever
insect—as well as the efforts of scientists in entomology,
agroecology, parasitology, and epidemiology. Ethiopia is an ideal
case for studying the historical human culture of illness, the
dynamism of nature’s disease ecology, and its complexity within
malaria.
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