Landscapes of Disease

Malaria in Modern Greece

Katerina Gardikas (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2017
Central European University Press (Verlag)
978-615-5211-98-0 (ISBN)

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Malaria has existed in Greece since prehistoric times. Its prevalence fluctuated depending on climatic, socioeconomic and political changes. The book focuses on the factors that contributed to the spreading of the disease in the years between independent statehood in 1830 and the elimination of malaria in the 1970s. By the nineteenth century, Greece was the most malarious country in Europe and the one most heavily infected with its lethal form, falciparum malaria. Owing to pressures on the environment from economic development, agrarian colonization and heightened mobility, the situation became so serious that malaria became a routine part of everyday life for practically all Greek families, further exacerbated by wars. The country's highly fragmented geography and its variable rainfall distribution created an environment that was ideal for sustaining and spreading of diseases, which, in turn, affected the tolerance of the population to malaria.
In their struggle with physical suffering and death, the Greeks developed a culture of avid quinine consumption and were likewise eager to embrace the DDT spraying campaign of the immediate post WW II years, which, overall, had a positive demographic effect.

Katerina Gardikas is associate professor at the Department of History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Maps

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Malaria: An Ancient and Global Disease

Chapter 2: The Fragmented Geography of the Disease

Chapter 3: Malaria in Peace and War

Chapter 4: Patients, Doctors, and Cures

Conclusion

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.04.2018
Reihe/Serie	CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
Verlagsort	Budapest
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
ISBN-10	615-5211-98-1 / 6155211981
ISBN-13	978-615-5211-98-0 / 9786155211980
Zustand	Neuware