| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Book Review

Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States. By Margaret Humphreys. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xii, 196 pp. $41.50, ISBN 0-8018-6637-5.)

Margaret Humphreys has produced a readable account of an infectious disease that has received little attention to its impacts within the United States. As Humphreys states (p. 5), she tells the story of malaria from three perspectives—those of the physician, the people, and the microbe itself. On this front, she is most successful in the first and last accounts; she focuses needed attention in the first two chapters on the breeding and feeding habits of mosquitoes, the history of etiological discovery and preventive program implementation in other regions, and physicians' attempts to get preventive measures in place in areas such as the southern United States. She is less successful in portraying the perspective of those involved or affected by those measures, though there are insights gleaned from the accounts of WPA (Works Progress Administration) workers who toured southern states during the Great Depression and interviewed members of communities especially affected by the disease.

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