Open AccessCrónicas de arroz, mosquitos y paludismo en España: el caso de la provincia de Valencia (s. XVIII-XX)
Author(s) -
Rubén Bueno Marí,
Ricardo Jiménez Peydró
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
hispania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.189
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1988-8368
pISSN - 0018-2141
DOI - 10.3989/hispania.2010.v70.i236.329
Subject(s) - valencia , geography , sanitation , humanities , epoch (astronomy) , political science , art , medicine , biology , ecology , stars , physics , pathology , astronomy
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