The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia

Deposing the Spirits

James C. McCann (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2015
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-2147-5 (ISBN)

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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.

James C. McCann is a professor of history and chair of the Department of Archaeology at Boston University. He is winner of a John S. Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2014 Distinguished Scholar of the American Society of Environmental History.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction Malaria’s Metaphor

A Chess Game or a Square Dance
Chapter One Ethiopia’s Malaria in the Age of “the Bark”
Chapter Two Mindscapes of Malaria

Miasma in Two Worlds
Chapter Three Flight of the Valkyries

Malaria Ecology in the Headwaters of the Nile
Chapter Four Tragedy of the Jeep, 1958–1991

Hope and the Return to the Drawing Board
Chapter Five Malaria Modern

1998, the Shivering Fever Reborn
Chapter Six She Sings

A Mosquito’s-Eye View of Malaria
Epilogue The Dance Continues

Eradication, Vaccine, and Malaria’s Ecology of Persistence
Afterword: Rosa’s Story
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.7.2015
Reihe/Serie	Series in Ecology and History
Verlagsort	Athens
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Rechtsmedizin
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8214-2147-6 / 0821421476
ISBN-13	978-0-8214-2147-5 / 9780821421475
Zustand	Neuware