The power of parasites : malaria as (un)conscious strategy / Dalia Iskander.
Iskander, Dalia, author.
2021
RA644.M2 I85 2021
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Title The power of parasites : malaria as (un)conscious strategy / Dalia Iskander.
Author Iskander, Dalia, author.
ISBN 9789811667640 (electronic bk.)
9811667640 (electronic bk.)
9811667632
9789811667633
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6764-0
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-16-6764-0 doi
Call Number RA644.M2 I85 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.9362
Summary This book describes how malaria both frustrates and facilitates life for Indigenous Pälawan communities living in the forested foothills of the municipality of Bataraza on the island of Palawan in the Philippines. Tracing the arc of malaria on the archipelago from colonial encounters to the present day, it examines the ways in which malaria parasites have become entangled in contemporary lives. It uniquely explores the experiences of local government leaders working towards sustainably developing this last ecological frontier, health workers trying to meet international targets to eliminate malaria, and Pälawan people trying to keep their bodies, social relations and the cosmos in careful balance. In exquisite detail, Dr Dalia Iskander shows how malaria emerged from, and was intrinsic to, a whole host of strategically-orientated social practices that were enacted in as well as around the disease's name, as people worked day-to-day to gain power in different guises in different arenas.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 17, 2021).
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Practices of Oppression
Chapter 3 Practices of Progress
Chapter 4 Practices of Development
Chapter 5 Practices of Professionalization
Chapter 6 Practices of Equilibrium
Chapter 7 Conclusion.

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