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October 2004, Vol 94, No. 10 | American Journal of Public Health 1694
© 2004 American Public Health Association

IMAGES OF HEALTH

Depression-Era Malaria Control in the South

Elizabeth Fee and Theodore M. Brown

Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Elizabeth Fee, PhD, Building 38, Room 1E21, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 (e-mail: elizabeth_fee@nlm.nih.gov).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

RACIAL HEALTH DISPARITIES are commonly expressed in terms of health indicators such as infant mortality or life expectancy, or by differences in the incidence of diseases such as tuberculosis or HIV/AIDS. However, racial health disparities have also been manifested in regional patterns of disease distribution. Malaria, notably, was once widespread throughout the United States, but by the early 20th century it was concentrated in the poorer areas of the rural South, where many African Americans were living in crumbling, windowless shacks.

In her recent work on the history of malaria in the United States, Margaret Humphreys traces the changing prevalence . . . [Full Text]






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