State visions, landscape, and disease: Discovering malaria in Argentina, 1890-1920

Geoforum

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 278-293

  Carter, Eric D ^a  

^a GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Historical geography; Malaria; Spatiality; State; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; MALARIA; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL HISTORY; TERRITORIALITY;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 37349050319     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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