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Chronicles of rice, mosquitoes and malaria in Spain: the case of the province of Valencia (18th-20th centuries)
Rubén Bueno MaríRicardo Jiménez Peydrósubject
historia de la medicinamosquitosHistorysiglos xviii-xix y xxSanitationmalariaModern historyepidemiología históricaSocial SciencesHistorical epidemiology; Medicine history; Eighteenth nineteenth and twenty centuries; Malaria; Rice; Mosquitoes; Anopheles; ValenciaHGeographyEpidemiología histórica; Historia de la medicina; Siglos XVIII-XIX y XX; Malaria; Arroz; Mosquitos; Anopheles; ValenciaanophelesarrozvalenciaHumanitiesDemographydescription
This study analyzes the situation of the rice fields in the Valencia province (Eastern Spain) during the centuries XVIII-XX. This area, together with the region of Campo Arañuelo (Western Spain), is one of the territories with highest malaria prevalence during the Spain's Modern History. Medical, demographic, social, economic and legal issues related with the problematic of the rice during this epoch are also discussed. Furthermore, this article provides information about the supposed transmission mechanisms of the disease, as well as the fight against it through chemotherapeutic and environmental sanitation techniques.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-12-30 | Hispania : Revista española de historia |